RUSM ATL Faculty Development & Medical Education Research and Scholarship - Academic Primer

Get ready for your academic experiences

Welcome to the Ross University School of Medicine Academy for Teaching and Learning. For further information, contact: Paul Leslie, PhD, at the ATL Faculty development: ATL Faculty Development

Please read through this primer to learn about various elements of this and other activities.

Discussion Forums

Many ATL activities will ask you to use discussion boards to interact with the other participants.

You will be asked to follow various guidelines that will help you to contribute to your classroom community, and support your classmates' ability to create new understanding.

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Expectations and Commitments

By participating in these courses, you are entering into an agreement with the RUSM ATL and the course facilitators.

We undertake to fulfill specific commitments to you as a participant.

We also have expectations from you regarding your performance and interactions with others.

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Terms and Tools

The ATL Faculty Development courses follow a number of design principles and draw upon a range of specific tools.

Please read through this section to understand the underlying design prinicples including naming conventions and tools that you may want to use for your assignments.

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