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Faculty Development Resources

The AACOM Leadership Institute offers leadership development opportunities to leaders and aspiring leaders in the osteopathic medical and medical education community. The goal is to cultivate strong leaders to meet key areas of need in the growing and dynamic osteopathic profession.

The Institute offers a variety of programs based on a range of career stages and trajectories. You can find descriptions of each of these programs below.

Cultivating strong leaders in the osteopathic medical education community
to meet key areas of need in the growing and dynamic osteopathic profession

Visit AACOM's Leadership Institute

Online Community

Faculty Development Special Interest Group
This is a subgroup of AACOM's Society of Osteopathic Medical Educators (SOME).

Interprofessional Resources

Oral Health Integration Implementation Guide
A comprehensive set of tools to help primary care practices integrate oral health in order to deliver whole-person care and improve patient outcomes and experience.

Resources shared by our member colleges

Certificate and Degree Programs in Medical Education
Education Scholar Modules
Developed by Western University of Health Sciences and
the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.
OU-HCOM Faculty Development Resources
COM Faculty Development Contacts
Compiled by AACOM 2015 Scholar-in-Residence Stephen Davis, PhD, OU-HCOM Director of Faculty Development

American College of Rheumatology

Conference and Meeting Reports

AACOM Participant Report: Collaborating Across Borders V (CAB V)
By Stephen Davis, PhD, OU-HCOM Director of Faculty Development

Videos and Presentations

The Effective Preceptor

(8:07 min) Download the related handout (pdf, 5 pages)

Stephen S. Davis, PhD, USAF Major Retired, Director, Faculty Development, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine/Center for Osteopathic Research and Education (CORE)

A Curriculum on Curriculum: For Osteopathic Educators

View the presentation (pdf, 31 slides)

What is a curriculum? What does curriculum mean? Who develops a curriculum and why? This presentation has the basics that a person should know before putting together a curriculum.

Introduction to Osteopathic Medicine for Non-DO Faculty: What Makes an Osteopathic Education Different?

(2010, 21:00 min)

Accreditation standards require that each osteopathic medical education program provide faculty development for its staff, including an orientation to osteopathic medicine for non-DO faculty. Use the links below to view an orientation to osteopathic medicine.

View the PowerPoint (2010, ppt, 22 slides)

Having MDs Precept Osteopathic Medical Students in OMM

View the videos
View the slide presentation (pdf, 43 slides)

Discussion of indications and contraindications for the most common techniques and the knowledge necessary to supervise osteopathic medical students in OMM are provided in these videos.

Osteopathic medical students, interns and residents may train in settings where DO attending physicians are not always available, or qualified preceptors to oversee the performance of osteopathic manual medicine may be limited. The ATSU-SOMA has developed a program to have MDs oversee the performance of OMM by osteopathic students, by developing a list of the ten most used techniques in osteopathic manual medicine, and then training allopathic physicians to supervise (not perform) these procedures.

Training the Osteopathic Professions Core Educators (TOPCE)

TOPCE is a starting point for anyone who wants to teach people to become medical professionals. TOPCE programs occur at national conferences like the AACOM Annual Conference, AOA's OMED Conference, and local meetings at individual schools.

Learn more and see sample TOPCE programming.

Additional Resources?
Contact meded@aacom.org if you have faculty development materials you wish share.

Federal and Advocacy Resources

Grassroots Advocacy

Career Planning