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Across the Foundation’s priority areas, our grantees are working to improve the health of the public through innovative research and programs.  The Foundation awards up to 40 grants on a rotating schedule each year.

Clinical Medicine and Faculty Development Program

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Institution: Stanford University School of Medicine

Grant Type: Board Grant

Award Amount: $131,383

Grant Awarded: October 1999

Principal Investigator: Kelley M. Skeff, MD, PhD

During its history, the Stanford Faculty Development Program has had an impact on clinical teaching in at least half of the medical schools in the United States.

In the three years since receiving its initial funding from the Macy Foundation in 1996, the Stanford Faculty Development Program trained 36 faculty members from different medical schools to retool their teaching skills to meet the demands of a complex and changing setting. These 36 faculty members have since returned to their home institutions where they, in turn, each taught these new skills to approximately 20 of their colleagues. In all, more than 700 medical school faculty members have now received this type of training.

This program for retraining faculty members has proven so effective that in 1998, 85 young and mid-career clinical faculty members competed for the 18 available training positions.

This final 15-month extension not only allows further training, but also permits Dr. Skeff and his colleagues to incorporate other issues raised by managed care and other health system changes into faculty development programs.