Expectations of Academy Members
Members actively participate in the Academy's work to promote educational excellence in the UCSF community.
Academy members serve as mentors to School of Medicine faculty, Teaching Scholars, residents and other teachers interested in developing as teachers.Upon request, they also assist courses, clerkships, and departments in strengthening their teaching (learn more about the Teaching Observation Program). Members promote and support interdisciplinary and interdepartmental approaches to medical education and collaborate with colleagues in academic departments and the Office of Medical Education to develop, implement and evaluate improvements in the curriculum.
In addition to their participation in these activities, members must be productive Academy citizens and fulfill minimum annual service expectations. Academy service is self-directed and fundamental to the Academy's founding principles.
Service Expectations for Academy Members
Members in good standing will:
- Maintain the high level of work in education and teaching that qualified them for membership
- Provide significant contributions toward advancing the Academy's mission
- Actively participate in Academy activities and attend Academy events
- Annually attest to the AME Principles of Professionalism
Service Expectations of All Members:
- Members are asked to attest to annual documentation on their participation and service to the Academy
- Academy-wide meetings attendance (50% of activities over a 2-year period.)
- Celebration of New Members in September
- Fall Meeting in December
- Winter Meetings in February and March (generally offered five times throughout February and once at Fresno in March)
- Education Showcase in May
- Summer Meeting in June
- Mentoring junior faculty members, formally or informally: talk about the Academy and actively involve mentees in our work or programs
Service Expectations of New Members (during the first three years of membership):
- Serve as an actively participating member of an Academy interest group, action group or committee (see table: AME Committee and Interest Groups).
Encouraged for all members:
- Serve as an actively participating member of an Academy interest group, action group or committee (see table: AME Committee and Interest Groups)
- Serve on a search committee for an Academy endowed chair
- Coach potential applicants
- Improve teaching through Academy co-sponsored activities:
- Formal mentoring through the Academy or become a Teaching Observation Program observer
- Serving as a liaison at activities related to the Academy mission in other venues: representing the Academy at selected academic conferences, membership on select institutional academic committees, mission-related education-focused grand rounds presentations, reviewing membership applications for sister academies, participating in the Academies Collaborative
- Participating in Educational Scholarship Conference (ESCape).
- Facilitating faculty development activities, on a departmental level or under the auspices of the Center for Faculty Educators or Graduate Medical Education teaching workshops.
- For 2023-2025: Members with 3+ years of Academy membership may opt to support the CFE faculty development redesign by serving as a departmental liaison or champion of > 10 hours in lieu of committee/action group assignment.
Service Expectations of Sustaining Members:
- Will be invited to all Academy general meeting and social events
- May be asked to participate in special projects to individual talents/interests- but will NOT be assigned to service activities routinely
- Will be asked to submit a 1-2 paragraph assessment of contributions towards the AME’s mission, for review on a three-year cycle – but will NOT be required to complete the full continuation review (e.g. no expectation to update Educator’s Portfolio).
Service Leave:
- For questions about leave of service, please contact Raquel Rodriguez, [email protected].
