Abstract:

The newly incorporated university teaching staff needs a specific training that allows them to perform in the best possible way the teaching function as well as acquiring the knowledge and skills necessary to be able to face the current challenges of the actual teaching environment. Physiology is an essential and complex subject. Its general objective is the knowledge of the functions of the organism in a state of health, and serves as a basis for the study of alterations in a state of illness and the prevention of disease. Therefore, aware of the complexity of the subject to be taught and of our responsibility to ensure that it is carried out as rigorously as possible, the Department has drawn up a chronologically organised training plan for teaching fellows and trainees with different types of contracts. In this way during their period on a teaching fellowship or teaching contract they can master at least the essential concepts of the basic subjects taught by the Department. The training of our junior lecturers is taken up by all of us as a major challenge.

With the development of this training plan, supervised and supported by the rest of the staff with more experience, the aim is for new teaching staff joining the department to approach their tasks starting with the simplest concepts and progressing to the more complex ones within the field of Physiology. In this way, the subsequent teaching of this knowledge to our students will be at an adequate and homogeneous level in all groups of the different subjects and will guarantee the acquisition of the skills and attitudes that will contribute to their professional and personal development.

This Training Plan must be understood as a cooperative work between all the teachers and administrative and service staff that make up the Department and will be oriented towards the resolution of problems detected, always from the perspective that training is a continuous process, which will be nourished by the advances or progress obtained and will be specified in new needs detected. The program will contribute to a better and faster adaptation of the novel teaching staff and thus result in a better learning environment for our students.

Keywords:

Novel staff, Physiology training, learning ecology.