Helping Nonteaching Faculty Teach

Nonteaching faculty are those who work in an academic practice but are not familiar with having a teaching role. This new teaching faculty role may be the result of a recent transition from a private practice to an academic setting, a career pivot, or late-stage career movement from a clinically productive role to a mentorship, or educational role as a bridge to retirement. For the purposes of this chapter, it is assumed that nonteaching faculty are individuals who have been in a private practice setting without trainees, and therefore have not had much experience teaching. Therefore, it is expected that these faculty are unfamiliar with central tenets of teaching, particularly when being tasked with educating young trainees such as residents and students, who, in many cases, are millennial learners.