Office of Faculty Development

- Calendar of Events Overview
- Past Event Transcripts
  Sign into your Engage account to download a transcript of your past event attendance.
- Teaching Overview
- Teaching Skills Workshops
  Featured trainings specifically designed to improve teaching skills.
- Teaching Resources
  Discover resources to advance teaching skills.
- Teaching Tools & Technology
  Top instructional tools and technology every faculty member should know.
- E-Learning Resource Center
  Resource to help faculty create an e-module.
- Career Overview
- Leadership Development
  Unlock your career potential through leadership development programs.
- Recognition & Resources
  Faculty awards and campus resources that help with career advancement.
- Promotion & Tenure
  Discover resources to help navigate the promotion and tenure process.
- Coaching
  More information about the coaching program available through Faculty Development including a list of trained coaches.
- Faculty Resources Overview
- New Faculty Resource Center
  A compilation of quick links to help new faculty hit the ground running.
- Independent Learning
  Resources to foster independent professional development.
- Stronger Campus Community
  Resources and opportunities to support all of UNMC.
- Search Committee Resources
  Tools for UNMC faculty search committees.
- Additional Resources
  Links to campus resources geared toward faculty.

— Office of Faculty Development — Faculty Resources — Independent Learning — Additional Independent Learning

Additional Independent Learning

Looking for additional independent learning opportunities? There are many free open-access resources available online.

Check out these popular UNMC and national resources. From infographics to podcasts, there are countless resources available to suit even the busiest schedules.

Let us know if you have a suggestion to add to the list.

UNMC Tools

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UNMC THRIVE: Success strategies for the modern-day faculty member

In partnership with UNMC faculty, the Office of Faculty Development created THRIVE, a collection of thought-provoking, one- to two-page briefs designed to be easily digested, guide personal reflection, and be implemented immediately into your classroom, clinic, or online teaching.

Download Thrive

A previous edition of THRIVE, with different topics and content was published in 2019. Review the complete list of articles in the first edition of the Thrive collection.

FREE E-Books Available Courtesy of Faculty Development

UNMC faculty have access to these FREE e-books. These e-books offer guidance on topics from improving student learning strategies to applying learning science in online classes.

Access the free e-books here.

Webinars & Online Courses

The AAMC offers webinars on a wide range of topics for members, students and residents, and aspiring physicians. View information about upcoming webinars and access past webinar recordings.

EDUCAUSE webinars cover a broad range of higher education and technology topics, including top IT issues, cybersecurity, leadership, teaching and learning with technology, and student success.

The ICBME (International Competency-Based Medical Education) Collaborators engage international audiences in exploring various models and approaches to CBME. These educational webinars presented by leading experts are available for free.

Faculty for Tomorrow

This free, 10-part webinar series, developed by the Faculty for Tomorrow Task Force, provides fundamental knowledge and skills that new faculty and residents as educators need to thrive in a career in academic family medicine, although the topics covered apply to all professions.

Teaching Repositories, E-Books & Blogs

Education Theory Made Practical

This free e-book produced by the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine team reviews various components of education theory in succinct, case-based, freely-available chapters.

The ICE (International Clinician Educators) blog promotes discussion among Clinician Educators from around the world, archiving a variety of educational resources.

MedEdPORTAL is an open-access journal of teaching and learning resources in the health professions. MedEdPORTAL publications are stand-alone, complete teaching or learning modules that have been implemented and evaluated with medical or dental trainees or practitioners.

Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT)

The MERLOT system, started by California State University, provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

Podcasts

Academic Medicine

Episodes chronicle the stories of individuals as they experience the science and the art of medicine.

Faculty Factory

A faculty development community sharing tools to build academic leaders.

An internal medicine podcast.

Teaching in Higher Education

Faculty Development for Professors

More Recommendations

There are countless free podcasts covering almost every topic imaginable. Here is an ongoing list of recommendations from the Office of Faculty Development.