Digital Transformation of Faculty Development: Responding and Supporting Academia During Disruptions Caused by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic

Yilmaz: Postdoctoral fellow at McMaster Education Research, Innovation, and Theory (MERIT), and Office of Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is also a researcher-instructor in the Department of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey. McDonald: The Office of Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Locke: The Office of Continuing Professional Development, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. Lal: Assistant Professor, Michael G. DeGroote Initiative for Innovation in Healthcare and Division of Education & Innovation, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She is also a member of McMaster Education Research, Innovation and Theory (MERIT) Program, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Bayer: Assistant Professor in Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She is also the director of Learning Technologies Lab, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Tong: Assistant clinical professor, Division of Emergency Medicine Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She is also Faculty Development Coordinator, Waterloo Regional Campus, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Kundi: Assistant clinical professor, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She is also Faculty Development Coordinator, Niagara Regional Campus, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Chan: Associate professor, Divisions of Emergency Medicine and Education and Innovation in the Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She is also associate dean, Faculty of Health Sciences' Office of Continuing Professional Development and clinician scientist, McMaster Education Research, Innovation, and Theory (MERIT), Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Correspondence: Teresa M. Chan, MD, FRCPC, MHPE, McMaster University, Department of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine McMaster Clinics, Room 255, 237 Barton St E, Hamilton, ON L8L 2X2, Canada; e-mail: [email protected].

McMaster University (including its subsidiary units and departments) fully funds the Faculty of Health Sciences Program for Faculty Development. All members of the team report some level of funding and/or stipends for their work associated with the program.

Aspects of the findings from this paper have been presented at the Society of Academic Continuing Medical Education conference; February 24–26, 2021.

(Based on ICMJE criteria): Y.Y. drafted outline of the paper. All of the authors contributed to collecting and analyzing the data. All of the authors contributed to content development. All of the authors contributed to writing and gave final approval to the manuscript.

Y.Y. receives the TUBITAK Postdoctoral Fellowship grant. At the time of authoring this article, T.M.C. received a stipend for her duties as the assistant dean for the Program for Faculty Development and currently received a stipend for her role as the associate dean of Continuing Professional Development within the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University. She also has received a PSI foundation grant for her work in social media and knowledge translation. I.B. and S.L. are MacPherson Leadership in Teaching and Learning Fellows. The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.

Hamilton Integrated Research Ethics Board granted exemption for this study.

An ethics review exemption was provided by the Hamilton Integrated Research Ethics Board.

No data set from outside academic or hospital-based institutions was used.

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