@article{a78391b00fcd41469ebf342acb0df121,
title = "Establishing and sustaining a transnational clinical teacher faculty development initiative",
abstract = "Transnational collaborations in faculty development aim to tackle challenges in resource and financial constraints, as well as to increase the quality of programs by collaborating expertise and best evidence from different centres and countries. Many challenges exist to establishing such collaborations, as well as to long-term sustainability once the collaboration ceases. Using the experiences of researchers from medical schools in Indonesia and Australia, this paper provides insights into establishing and sustaining a transnational collaboration to create a faculty development initiative (FDI) to improve clinical teacher practice. Viewed through the lens of the experiences of those involved, the authors describe their learnings from pathways of reciprocal learning, and a synergistic approach to designing and implementing a culturally resonant FDI. The importance of activities such as needs assessment and curriculum blueprinting as ways of establishing collaborative processes and the bilateral exchange of educational expertise, rather than as a mechanism of curriculum control, is highlighted. The relevance of activities that actively foster cultural intelligence is explored as is the importance of local curriculum champions and their role as active contributors to the collaborative process.",
keywords = "Clinical Teacher, Collaboration, Faculty Development, Transnational",
author = "Justin Bilszta and Jayne Lysk and Ardi Findyartini and Diantha Soemantri",
note = "Funding Information: We would agree, but also argue that resource allocation is important for ensuring sustainability. One of the crucial aspects to the success of this project was the funding from the Australian–Indonesia Institute which allowed the research team to meet regularly face-to-face and attend activities in both countries. However, this grant was limited to costs associated with travel and accommodation and consequently much in-kind support was required from both institutions; for example, none of the costs associated with delivery of the Training the Trainer workshop was covered by the Australia-Indonesia Institute grant and expenses such as room hire, catering and photocopying were provided in-kind by FMUI senior management. Another factor which soon became evident was that much of the success of the collaboration depended on the researchers allocating time from other academic activities which could not be backfilled by other staff. This meant much of the time spent working on this project was after-hours or on the weekend. Further, the involvement of administrative staff from both institutions was limited for similar reasons which meant most of the organisational workload also fell back on the researchers. Funding Information: Funding This project was supported by the Commonwealth of Australia through the Australia–Indonesia Institute of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Application No: AII00004 of AII Grant Round 1 2014). Generous in-kind support was provided by Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia and the Department of Medical Education, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 TAPS. All rights reserved. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2020",
month = jan,
doi = "10.29060/TAPS.2020-5-1/RA2087",
language = "English",
volume = "5",
pages = "8--15",
journal = "Asia Pacific Scholar",
issn = "2424-9335",
publisher = "National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law",
number = "1",
}