Faculty Affairs and Learning Innovation

Roseman University College of Medicine

The Office of Faculty Affairs and Learning Innovation (OFALI) is the central faculty affairs and instructor development office at Roseman University College of Medicine. We support an innovative, collaborative, democratic, diverse, and inclusive community of educators at Roseman University College of Medicine by focusing on innovation, collaboration, and empowerment.

FOCUS on Innovation

Advancing a socially accountable and scholarly approach to teaching and learning in the health sciences
Encouraging the application of the Roseman Six Point Mastery Learning Model where appropriate for medical education
Fostering horizontal and vertical integration of social determinants of health, humanities, ethics, and professionalism
Facilitating the incorporation of educational technology in teaching and learning activities
Developing and disseminating scholarship and curriculum on Studio Based Learning (link)
Housing the Curriculum Design Studio, a collaborative space to create curriculum using education technology, while working with an instructional designer

FOCUS on Collaboration

Working closely with Roseman faculty in the colleges of pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, and medicine to promote transdisciplinary teaching and research partnerships
Leading transdisciplinary teaching and learning beyond the health sciences, including law, the arts, humanities, social sciences, data sciences, design, and architecture
Partnering with the Roseman Center for Innovation in Health Professions Education to advance collaborative research and curriculum design
Advocating socially accountable qualitative and quantitative scientific methodologies
Offering research coaching including encouragement of faculty to engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning
Delivering programming to foster a culture of collegiality, professionalism, and belonging among all faculty and staff

FOCUS on Empowerment

Providing services and support to all faculty, including regular, clinical, and community faculty associates, to achieve individual career goals and enhance scholarship and teaching
Guiding faculty through the promotions process
Promoting interest groups to support those minoritized in academic medicine
Supporting the Faculty Assembly and the Faculty Council
Disseminating progressive, inclusive, and transparent policies
Developing pedagogic and mentoring strategies that simultaneously uphold the principle of academic freedom and advance a culture of professionalism, collegiality and belonging.
Collecting and analyzing data on faculty appointments, promotions, and scholarship

Preceptor: Ideas and Inspiration for Mountain West Clinical Educators

Preceptor: Ideas and Inspiration for Mountain West Clinical Educators, a quarterly e-newsletter. Medical education in the Mountain West region relies heavily on clinician educators from the community. This newsletter is designed to support community clinical faculty in the region to enhance their skills as educators, to understand emerging trends in medical education, and to integrate the health humanities, including ethics, social justice, history, law, and art, into medical practice and clinical teaching. The newsletter is curated, written, and edited by medical educators in the American Mountain West with occasional guest contributions from colleagues farther afield.