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Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Medical Education

Date Submitted: Jan 22, 2025
Date Accepted: Aug 28, 2025

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Faculty Retreats in Academic Medicine: Tutorial

Skains R, Brown J, Shufflebarger EF, McGiboney J, Hicks S, McDonald L, Griesmer KB, Shaw C, Grass E, Elie MC, Walter LA

Faculty Retreats in Academic Medicine: Tutorial

JMIR Med Educ 2025;11:e71622

DOI: 10.2196/71622

PMID: 41183318

PMCID: 12582542

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Faculty Retreats in Academic Medicine: Tutorial

  • Rachel Skains; 
  • Julie Brown; 
  • Erin F. Shufflebarger; 
  • Justine McGiboney; 
  • Sherell Hicks; 
  • Laine McDonald; 
  • Katherine B. Griesmer; 
  • Christine Shaw; 
  • Emily Grass; 
  • Marie-Carmelle Elie; 
  • Lauren A. Walter

ABSTRACT

Faculty development in academic medicine is important to promote personal and professional growth over the course of a career. Faculty retreats have increasingly emerged as a faculty development strategy which can broadly impact individual as well as departmental or institutional needs; however, limited resources are available, with specificity to academic medicine, to guide a department or other organizers on how to implement a faculty retreat. As such, this review attempts to consider the impact of faculty retreats as well as provide structure and organization for an effective retreat planning strategy, including pre-retreat needs assessment, implementation, and post-retreat considerations.


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Skains R, Brown J, Shufflebarger EF, McGiboney J, Hicks S, McDonald L, Griesmer KB, Shaw C, Grass E, Elie MC, Walter LA

Faculty Retreats in Academic Medicine: Tutorial

JMIR Med Educ 2025;11:e71622

DOI: 10.2196/71622

PMID: 41183318

PMCID: 12582542

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