The need to consider the faculty's perspective, also part of Dormant's model, led to the development of a standardized process and method for collecting faculty responses to the vision across our institution.
This suggests that the scaffolded material development process in the InTeGrate project is an effective method of faculty change for instructors who exhibit a range of pre-existing pedagogical beliefs.
Funding for medical education, research methods and metrics for faculty tenure and promotion may be additional barriers, since, in resource poor countries, funding for research in generally limited across any field.
TA-1 (Identifying Major Clinical/Public Health Problems and Relevant Translational Research Questions) was the highest priority training area selected by faculty and graduate students followed by TA-6 (Statistical Methods and Analysis) for faculty and TA-4 (Study Method/Design/Implementation) for graduate students.
They also planned to continue capacity-building by offering workshops to provide advanced training in innovative teaching methods as well as mentoring for faculty members interested to pursue careers in medical education.
Peer mentoring, as used in this project, has been described as an effective mentoring method for both male and female faculty [ 15, 16, 19- 21].
New methods, new technologies, and new roles and responsibilities for faculty and librarians are described.
Course directors are cautioned to address the need to allocate sufficient time for faculty development in use of the PBL method before making radical curriculum reform.
Methods: An experienced trainer conducted a basic course (12 hours) in TA for faculty members.
To address low productivity due to lack of technical competencies, training programmes in research methods, grant and manuscript writing and human research subject protection were organized for faculty and postgraduate trainees and regularly presented at UEM and Unilurio by UEM faculty and international partners.
