Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2115/33022

JaLCDOI : 10.14943/J.HighEdu.15.89

The Department of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University School of Medicine was inaugurated in October 2004, replacing the former College of Medical Technology. With more advanced and professional education required, the chairman of our department suggested the necessity of original faculty development (FD), specializing in professional education. Consequently, an FD working group (the present FD Practice Commission) was organized in 2005. The group repeatedly discussed the results of a questionnaire survey for teachers, and finally held the first FD workshop in September. The second one was held in September 2006. The results of questionnaire surveys conducted after the first and the second workshops included many positive answers. The FD of our department specializing in professional healthcare education is geared to the professionalism of health sciences and the realities of our department, which is compartmentalized from other FD projects in Hokkaido University. The factor that increases the significance of our FD is that the planning to meet the needs of each teacher and the style in which many teachers can participate in FD are feasible because of the limited scale of our department.