Family & Community Medicine

James W. Tysinger, PhD.

Email: tysinger@uthscsa.edu
Phone: 210 567-3043

Faculty/Administrative Position: Associate Professor, Deputy-Chair for Faculty Development

Interests: Faculty Development, learning and performance; distance and asynchronous learning; Dr. Jim Tysinger consults with faculty and residents on teaching and writing proposals for and planning, developing and presenting sessions at local and national meetings. Please contact him for more details.

Ph.D: University of Texas, Austin, TX
MA: St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, TX
BS: North Carolina State University, NC

Recent Awards:

  • The 2007 STFM Innovative Program Award for Smiles for Life: A National Oral Health Curriculum presented to the STFM Group on Oral Health.

Book:

  1. Resumes and Personal Statements for Health Professionals, 3rd Edition. Tucson, AZ: Galen Press, 2007.

Select Publications:

  1. Douglass AB, Gonsalves W, Maier R, Silk H, Stevens N, Tysinger J, Wrightson AS.  Smiles for Life: A National Oral Health Curriculum for Family Medicine. A model for curriculum development by STFM groups. Fam Med. 2007 Feb;39(2):88-90.
  2. Parrot S, Dobbie A, Chumley H, Tysinger JW.  Evidence-based office teaching--the five-step microskills model of clinical teaching. Fam Med. 2006 Mar;38(3):164-7.
  3. Dobbie A, Tysinger JW. Evidence-based strategies that help office-based teachers give effective feedback.  Fam Med. 2005 Oct;37(9):617-9. www.stfm.org/fmhub/fm2005/October/Alison617.pdf

Editorial work:

  • Reviewer, Innovations Section, Family Medicine
  • Reviewer, Journal of Dental Education

National Appointments or Offices held:

  • Chair, STFM Program. www.stfm.org
  • Member, STFM Special Task Force on the Future of Family Medicine
  • STFM Liaison, the Family Medicine Program Directors Workshop Planning Committee
  • Member, STFM Strategic Planning Committee

Contact Family & Community Medicine / Administration
Departmental Questions
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Phone: (210) 567-4550
Fax: (210) 567-4579

 

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