1355 - Stealth Curriculum: A Covert Mission in Faculty Development

Saturday, April 23, 2022

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM US MT

Location: Convention Center: 405

CE: Live CME: 1.5

Course Number: 1355

Leader(s)

Caroline Paul, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
Pediatrics
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York City, New York, United States

Co-Leader(s)

Chris Peltier, MD (he/him/his)

Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
General and Commuity Pediatrics
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
AC

Amy Creel, Md (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
LSUHSC
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
RT

Rebecca Tenney-Soeiro, MD, MSEd

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States
HW

Helen Wang, MD (she/her/hers)

Assistant Clinical Professor
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, California, United States
Michael Ryan, MD, MEHP

Professor and Vice Chair of Education
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU
Richmond, Virginia, United States

Participants should be aware of the following financial/non-financial relationships:

Caroline R. Paul, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Chris Peltier, MD, FAAP: ● Mead Johnson (Currently Ongoing) (Products/Services: Speaker Honorarium including speakers bureau, symposia, and expert witness)
● Proctor and Gamble (Currently Ongoing) (Products/Services: Advisory Committee)

Amy M. Creel, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Rebecca Tenney-Soeiro, MD, MSEd: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Helen C. Wang, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Michael S. Ryan, MD, MEHP: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

It is often assumed that teaching faculty come equipped with the appropriate knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSA) to teach the topics with which they are charged. However, this may not always be the case and individual faculty may have significant underlying gaps regarding the topics they teach. Traditional faculty development efforts often focus on higher order teaching skills, overlooking potential KSA gaps. Indeed, faculty may not recognize their own deficits or seek out new knowledge or skills. These unrecognized faculty KSA gaps can hinder the effectiveness of Train-the-Trainer curricula, raising the potential of passing on these deficits to learners. The Stealth Curriculum is intended to address these challenges in faculty development.

Stealth Curriculum is a “curriculum-within-a-curriculum.” It targets these often unrecognized deficits among faculty and can be used to address critical topics in which faculty assume they already have facility. Informed by educational principles such as Kolb’s Learning Cycle, Stealth Curriculum can be deliberately incorporated into faculty development interventions that focus on faculty as teachers, like Train-the-Trainer curricula.

The goal of this workshop is for participants to learn how to use Stealth Curriculum to develop and refine faculty development endeavors. Participants will collaborate with co-leaders and each other to better inform their own faculty development curricula at their home institutions.