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Tysinger, James Walter

School of Medicine
Family & Community Medicine
(210) 567-3043
tysinger@uthscsa.edu

James W. Tysinger PhD is a medical educator and professor with tenure in the Department of Family and Community Medicine where he serves as Deputy Chair for Faculty Development. He performs a variety of faculty development activities that include co-chairing the departments Faculty Life Committee, teaching and mentoring students/residents/faculty, guiding junior faculty as they disseminate their scholarly work in presentations at national meetings and publications in peer-reviewed journals, advising the chair and other department leaders on educational matters, and directing the South Texas Regional Family Medicine Grand Rounds.

Dr. Tysinger has extensive experience teaching medical students, Family Medicine residents, and faculty. He served as co-director of the Family Medicine clerkship for six years and has presented sessions to 2nd Year medical students on preparing for and taking the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1 and to 4th Year medical students on applying to residencies. He teaches Family Medicine residents to enhance their learning and test-taking skills and helps them apply for positions after residency. Dr. Tysinger presents faculty development sessions to department faculty and faculty at the Regional Academic Health Center (RAHC) and other sites in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. He also teaches in the Leonard G. Paul Faculty Development Fellowship in San Antonio and the Family Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship in Waco.

Dr. Tysinger is active in the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM). As chair of the STFM Program Committee, he helps plan the Societys largest meeting (>1,000 attendees) and is the Societys liaison to the Family Medicine Program Directors Workshop Planning Committee. He serves as an appointed member of the Societys Board of Directors, Strategic Planning Committee, and Special Task Force on Implementing the Future of Family Medicine Project. In He has also taught in the Societys "Teaching and Learning Skills," "Teaching One-on-One, "Administrative Skills," and "Career Development for Clinical Educators" preconference workshops and co-chaired the Societys Group on Faculty Development.

Appointments Education Expertise Teaching Publications Grants

12/2006 - Present	Director, South Texas Regional Family Medicine Grand Rounds	The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Family & Community Medicine, San Antonio, TX
7/2003 - Present	Deputy Chair for Faculty Development	The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Family & Community Medicine, San Antonio, TX

Administrative Skills

- I am skilled in managing educational programs including funding educational activities, developing and evaluating curricula, developing and implementing program marketing strategies and materials, recruiting and selecting applicants, preparing and managing program budgets, evaluating learners, advising and mentoring learners, advertising for and selecting staff and faculty, training staff and faculty for specific roles, supervising and evaluating staff, collaborating with other administrators and faculty, and accomplishing strategic planning activities.

Career advising and counseling

- I am skilled in working with learners at all levels and disciplines on career development issues such as setting career goals, preparing CVs and personal statements for applying to educational programs, and employment positions. I wrote the book "Resumes and Personal Statements for Health Professionals" based on my experiences working with pre-medical and medical students who were applying to medical school and residency, respectively. I co-present sessions on writing CVs in the Physicians Assistant Studies Program at UTHSCSA and to 4th Year medical students. Each year I present a session at the National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students on applying to and interviewing at residents programs. That session is usually the best attended and highest-rated session at the National Conference.

Curriculum Development

- I have extensive experience in assessing learner needs, planning and implementing successful educational interventions, developing innovative curricula, evaluating educational interventions, and revising educational interventions based on learner outcomes and feedback from administrators and faculty.

Educational Program Management

- I have directed my department''s faculty development activities since July 2000. These activities included assessing faculty needs; developing a faculty development curriculum each year; collaborating with leadership in our medical student and residency programs to address needs among their paid and volunteer faculty; obtaining federal and state funds for faculty development activities in San Antonio and the Regional Academic Health Center in Harlingen; conducting faculty development sessions in San Antonio, Harlingen, McAllen, Sequin, and Brownsville; chairing my department''s clinical faculty (unpaid) committee; orienting new faculty, managing faculty development funds, directing the faculty awards program; conducting assessments of faculty teaching in clinics, hospital service, and maternity service; mentoring faculty; and collaborating with faculty on presentations at national meetings and publications.

Faculty Development

- I assess faculty needs and lead faculty development activities related to career development, small and large group teaching, facilitation of small group problem-based learning, curriculum development, and writing training grants. I orient new faculty and mentor faculty across the spectrum of experience. I conduct "academic detailing" sessions with our clinical (volunteer) faculty who teach in private practice settings, and work with individual faculty who have received unsatisfactory evaluations from students or residents.

Improvement of Academic Performance

- I have extensive experience in assisting learners at all levels (medical students to faculty) improve performance on standardized examinations for medical licensure and board certification. I help these individuals assess their needs, reflect on their performance problems, learn about the instrument (i.e., examination) that will be used to assess them, develop a systematic study plan based on "high yield" topics, work on specific issues that are impairing their learning and/or performance (e.g., lack of higher-level thinking), and manage exam-related stress.

Presentation Skills

- As the director of my department''s Grand Rounds, I teach sessions on presentation skills and consult with faculty on strategies and techniques to improve their large and small group presentation skills. I teach faculty how to prepare their presentation to address learner needs, organize their presentation logically to aid learning, and engage/involve learners in the presentation.

Date	Description	Institution	# Students
3/2007 - Present	MSIV Didactic: Residents as Teachers		12 students
I serve as a small group facilitator in this medical student Fourth Year elective. The focus of this course is equipping fourth year students with the confidence and skills to be effective teachers as residents. The following topics are covered in the four sessions: Teaching learners with different learning styles, teaching skills and procedures, bedside teaching, and giving feedback. Following a large group presentation by Dr. Jennifer Peel, the course director, I work with my group of students in applying what they learn. Number of courses per year: 1. Number of students taught in this course per year: 12. Total contact hours: 8 hours.
4/2002 - Present	Preparing for Your Fourth Year Selectives and Electives	UTHSCSA-Regional Academic Health Center	140 students
Description: A lecture on strategies for selecting fourth year electives and selectives Audience: Fourth Year medical students at the Regional Academic Health Center in Harlingen as part of "Career Day at the RAHC." Role: Developer and co-presenter. Preparation: 2 hours. Presentation: 1 hour each year followed by a one-on-one consultation period with each student who is considering applying to a Family Medicne residency.
9/2000 - Present	Post-Doctoral Student Supervision	UTHSCSA

8/2000 - Present	Preparing an Effective CV for Residency Application	UTHSCSA	800 students
Description: An interactive lecture/discussion on writing an effective CV for residency applications. Audience: Fourth Year medical students. Role: Developer and presenter. Preparation: 8 hours. Presentation: 1 hour 4 times a year. I also critique students CVs and suggest improvements in content and/or appearance.
7/2000 - Present	Internat''l Health Preceptorship	The University of Texas Health Science Center	35 students
Course Director - Description: A clinical experience in a country outside the United States. Audience: Fourth Year medical students (about 5 students per year).
7/2000 - Present	Writing an Effective Personal Statement for Residency Applications	UTHSCSA	800 students
Description: An interactive lecture/discussion on writing an effective personal statment for residency applications. Audience: Fourth Year medical students. Role: Developer and presenter. Preparation: 8 hours. Presentation: 1 hour 4 times a year. I also critique students personal statements and suggest improvements in content and/or appearance.

Journal Article

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 Family Medicine 2007 Feb;39(2):88-90.

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):164-167.

Dobbie A, Tysinger JW. Evidence-based strategies that help office-based teachers give effective feedback Fam Med 2005 Oct;37(9):617-619.

Dobbie AE, Tysinger JW, Freeman J. Strategies for efficient office precepting Fam Med 2005 Apr;37(4):239-241.

Usatine RP, Tysinger JW. Incorporating PDAs into Your Clerkship The Teaching Physician - An STFM Publication 2005 Jan;4(1).

Usatine RP, Tysinger JW. Information technology and teaching in the office: Incorporating PDAs into your practice The Teaching Physician 2005 Jan;4(1):3-4.

Dobbie A, Rhodes M, Tysinger JW, Freeman J. Using a modified nominal group technique as a curriculum evaluation tool Fam Med 2004 Jun;36(6):402-406.

Book/Monograph

Usatine RP, Smith M, Mayeaux EJ, Chumley HS, Tysinger J. The Color Atlas of Family Medicine Hightstown, New Jersey: McGraw-Hill; 2008. 800 p.

Tysinger JW. Rsums and Personal Statements for Health Professionals (First edition, 1994; Second edition, 2000; Third edition, 2007) Tucson, Arizona: Galen Press, LTD; 2007. 210 p.

Abstract

Ballinger T, Tysinger JW, Usatine RP. ACE (Alliance for Clinical Education) Abstracts: Proceeding of the 2006 Annual Predoctoral Meeting of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), "Do They Know What They Need? Outcomes of Letting Students Choose to Attend Didactics": Laurence Erlbaum Associates, Inc; 2006 Jan. (Teaching and Learning in Medicine; vol. 18, no. 4).

Review Article

Dobbie, AE Tysinger JW Freeman, J. Evidence-based feedback for preceptors Family Medicine 2005 Aug;37(8).

Tysinger JW. Conducting an online faculty development survey STFM Messenger 2004 Oct;4(5):7-7.

Electronic/Web Publication

Tysinger JW. Presentation Skills http://familymed.uthscsa.edu/facultydevelopment/teaching.cfm; 2006 Jun. Available from: http://familymed.uthscsa.edu/facultydevelopment/teaching.cfm This is a PowerPoint presentation on how to prepare and present a lecture.

Tysinger JW, Donly KJ, Roldan R, Reese VF, Schneider FD, Foulds DM, Huston RL, Hendricson W. Project Smile 2006 Jan. Available from: http://familymed.uthscsa.edu/facultydevelopment/elearning/projectsmile/projectinfo2.htm Project Smile was a collaborative effort of the Dental and Medical Schools at the University of the Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. It was funded by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration. Project Smiles purpose was teach Family Physicians and Pediatricians to prevent, identify early childhood caries in children. The course consists of four modules. Learners complete a brief self-assessment in the Course Instructions by verbally responding to four questions.

Year	Degree	Discipline	Institution
1985	PhD	Curriculum and Instruction	The University of Texas at Austin Austin , TX
1977	MA	Counseling and Human Services	St. Mary''s University San Antonio , TX
1971	BS	Science Education/Biology (Honors)	North Carolina State University Raleigh , NC
1969	AA	Science (Honors)	Wingate College Wingate , NC

Federal
Funding Agency	SAMHSA - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Title	SBIRT-South Texas Area Residency Training (S-START)
Status	Active
Period	9/2008 - 9/2013
Role	Co-Investigator
Grant Detail	The major goal of this project is to expertly train a multidisciplinary cadre of resident physicians, many subsequently practicing in South Texas, in SBIRT detection and management of patients with or at risk for substance use. Over five years, Project S-START will develop and implement comprehensive, culturally-competent SBIRT curricula, centered on the evidence-based SBIRT model of screening, brief intervention, referral and brief treatment for alcohol, illicit drugs, and misuse of prescription drugs.
State
Funding Agency	UTHSCSA Academic Center for Excellence in Teaching (ACET)
Title	Mobile Medicine Podcast Program
Status	Active
Period	9/2007 - 10/2009
Role	Co-Investigator
Grant Detail	Development of a Mobile Medicine Podcast Program including local production of primary care podcasts, development of a Podcasts in Primary Medicine website and a ready supply of iPod MP3 players available to residents for use in remediation program. Structured remediation plan will include the use of iPods and recorded podcast shows as a learning/review venue for improving in-training exam scores.

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