Promoting Faculty Scholarship - An evaluation of a program for busy clinician-educators.

Background: Clinician educators face barriers to scholarship including lack of time, insufficient skills, and access to mentoring. An urban department of family medicine implemented a federally funded Scholars Program to increase the participants' perceived confidence, knowledge and skills to conduct educational research.

Method: A part-time faculty development model provided modest protected time for one year to busy clinician educators.

Learning social medicine in the Bronx: an orientation for primary care residents.

Background: Primary care educators face the challenge of teaching the social context of health and disease to clinicians.

Description: Since 1975, the Residency Program in Social Medicine has trained clinicians to practice in urban underserved communities. During Orientation Month, 1st-year residents are relieved of inpatient duties and participate in learning activities addressing social and cultural aspects of health.