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Faculty Development Program

Faculty Development Program Overview

Welcome to the Faculty Development Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center -- Winner of the 2007 Ambulatory Pediatric Association (APA) Outstanding Teaching Award

The Medals Program
(Medical Educator Development and Learning Studies)

The Faculty Development Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center began in the fall of 1995 with a basic faculty development course targeting community physicians who precept residents in their offices and members of the Division of General and Community Pediatrics.

Since that first course, the faculty development program has expanded to a comprehensive, integrated, multi-level, interdisciplinary program. The MEDALS program (Medical Educator Development and Learning Studies) offers faculty development in teaching to all levels of learners and educators and to all disciplines in medicine including residents, fellows, junior faculty and medical educators in faculty development regionally and nationally: