Faculty Skills Course

Pursue professional development and jump-start your faculty career with fundamental skills you need to succeed in academics. The Faculty Skills Course provides you in-depth, fully online training in fundamental skills you'll need as a faculty member, including time management, incorporating learners into your clinical workflow, and writing for academic publication. Each module in this 7-hour self-directed course includes a variety of activities, including video interviews with experienced faculty, interactive modules, readings, and self-paced assignments.

The course is designed to allow you to work at your own pace and return to the resources as often as you need.

Learning Objectives:

After completing this course, you will be able to:

Apply time management skills to faculty responsibilities
Optimize your schedule for your role
Assess your career goals
Manage your time to achieve those goals

This course will take approximately 1 hour to complete.

Authors: Karly Pippitt, MD, FAAFP, and Erika Ringdahl, MD

Learning Objectives:

After completing this course, you will be able to:

Define the 4 stages of working with a medical student
Explain how the actions taken during each stage help to improve efficiency and minimize potential loss of productivity
Implement these actions to effectively incorporate medical students into your clinical workflow

This course will take approximately 1 hour to complete.

Authors: Steven Lin, MD, and Joel Heidelbaugh, MD

Learning Objectives:

After completing this course, you will be able to:

Understand the basics of how medical schools are funded
Describe common hierarchy for academic ranks
Be able to create a CV
Consider opportunities for personal career growth

This course will take approximately 1 hour to complete.

Authors: Mary Theobald, MBA, and Anne D. Walling, MB, ChB, FFPHM

Learning Objectives:

After completing this course, you will be able to:

Identify suitable topics and optimal journals for academic publication
Serve the needs of both reader and publisher in developing an article
Describe characteristics of good writing
Use the review process to improve a manuscript

This course will take approximately 1 hour to complete.

Author: Anne Walling, MB, ChB, FFPHM

Technical Requirements

In order to get the full experience of these courses, we recommend that the courses be viewed on a desktop computer, laptop, and most tablets. Smartphones are not supported.

How To Begin

Once you have purchased the course, go to your My Account page on stfm.org. Click Online Learning at the top to begin. The course will be in the Courses section of the online learning center.