TAGME Faculty Development and Supervision 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the role of a Program Coordinator (PC) in supporting faculty development activities?
- Conducting resident performance evaluations
- Organizing faculty development sessions, tracking attendance, and managing logistics (Correct answer)
- Setting faculty salary structures
- Approving faculty leave requests
Correct answer: Organizing faculty development sessions, tracking attendance, and managing logistics
Program Coordinators support faculty development by organizing events, tracking required participation, maintaining records, and coordinating scheduling and resources.
Question 2: Which ACGME core competency is most closely related to faculty supervision and mentorship skills?
- Professionalism
- Interpersonal and Communication Skills (Correct answer)
- Systems-Based Practice
- Medical Knowledge
Correct answer: Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Interpersonal and Communication Skills encompass the ability to work effectively with trainees, colleagues, and patients, which is central to supervision and mentorship.
Question 3: What is the 'teaching-as-scholarship' model in GME faculty development?
- Publishing textbooks as a teaching requirement
- Applying scholarly rigor — inquiry, evidence, reflection — to educational practice (Correct answer)
- Requiring all faculty to hold advanced education degrees
- Counting teaching hours toward research metrics
Correct answer: Applying scholarly rigor — inquiry, evidence, reflection — to educational practice
Teaching-as-scholarship applies the same intellectual rigor used in clinical research to educational activities, treating teaching as a scholarly endeavor.
Question 4: How should a Program Director handle a faculty member who is providing inadequate supervision of residents?
- Immediately terminate the faculty member's appointment
- Counsel the faculty member, provide development resources, and document the process (Correct answer)
- Report directly to ACGME without internal review
- Reassign all residents away from that faculty member
Correct answer: Counsel the faculty member, provide development resources, and document the process
The appropriate response is to counsel the faculty member, identify specific deficiencies, provide development support, and document the remediation process.
Question 5: What is 'co-teaching' or 'team-based supervision' in GME programs?
- Two residents sharing the same patient load
- Multiple faculty collaborating to supervise and teach the same resident cohort (Correct answer)
- Residents teaching medical students independently
- Faculty sharing administrative duties only
Correct answer: Multiple faculty collaborating to supervise and teach the same resident cohort
Team-based supervision involves multiple faculty members collaborating to provide consistent, complementary supervision and teaching across a resident cohort.
Question 6: What is the 'hidden curriculum' in medical education and why is it relevant to GME administrators?
- Unapproved elective courses
- Implicit values, norms, and behaviors trainees learn from the clinical environment beyond formal teaching (Correct answer)
- Secret faculty evaluation criteria
- Undocumented research requirements
Correct answer: Implicit values, norms, and behaviors trainees learn from the clinical environment beyond formal teaching
The hidden curriculum refers to the unstated lessons residents absorb from clinical culture, role modeling, and institutional norms — shaping professionalism and attitudes.
TAGME Faculty Development and Supervision 2
What is the role of a Program Coordinator (PC) in supporting faculty development activities?