The Red Book - The College of Family Physicians Canada

) Program directors, faculty, other teachers, and residents should be educated aboutappropriate behaviour in the learning environment and about intimidation and otherabusive behaviour.c) Each department of family medicine must plan and implement faculty developmentactivities for its teachers.(i) Faculty development should be appropriate to the departmental context. That is,faculty development activities should be planned according to the department’smission, goals, and objectives.(ii) Available resources in the larger university setting should also be considered inprogram planning.(iii) Faculty development should be faculty centred. Faculty development should bebased on the needs of individual full-time and part-time teachers, and shouldencourage a commitment to their self-directed and lifelong learning.(iv) Faculty development programming should include a variety of content areas,teaching methods, and activities in order to meet diverse departmental needs, andshould be evaluated on an ongoing basis.(v) Faculty development should be actively supported and promoted. Eachdepartment should allocate human and financial resources to faculty developmentprogramming in order to ensure its success. Moreover, each department shoulddevelop an appropriate administrative structure to oversee the development andimplementation of faculty development programming, and should collaborate withkey players in the university and other professional organizations to ensure thatappropriate faculty development opportunities are available.15