Faculty members feted

April 4, 2011 at 10:27 pm

We recently held our inaugural Teacher Recognition Dinner to acknowledge the contributions our faculty members make to medical education at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine. Thank you to all who attended and we hope to see more of you next year.

We are fortunate to have more than 1600 faculty members who are committed to teaching our medical and graduate students.
Many of our faculty members also play leadership roles such as associate and assistant deans, department heads, program directors, course coordinators, faculty supervisors, B.Sc.(Med.) supervisors, research directors, preceptors and more.

We value each of you for your dedication to our students and thank you for your important work here. Each and every one of our faculty members plays a key role in inspiring our students and impacts their career paths, life goals and academic success.

André Picard, the Globe & Mail’s Public Health reporter, gave the keynote address in which he spoke about the changing face of newspapers, his sources for story ideas, the move toward briefer stories in newspapers/on the web, and how academics and researchers should convey their messages to the media.

With the focus on web news, Picard said physicians and researchers must be able to quickly summarize their complex research. There is an appetite for medical/health news, he noted The Globe & Mail runs five health-relates stories a day on the health pages in the Lifestyle section providing practical consumer advice and information on myriad of medical and health topics.

However, reporters do not have time to read the 8000 medical articles published daily (he himself reads 30 to 40 abstracts a week) so researchers must be able to succinctly highlight their findings.

He advised academics/researchers to be sincere and brief when speaking with reporters, and remember to explain their research in plain language.
How do you think faculty members should be recognized and honoured?