The Restorative Practices in Academic Medicine (RPAM) Facilitator Training is a comprehensive, longitudinal program designed to equip participants with the skills needed to effectively understand the Restorative Practices (RP) processes for preventing harm, strengthening community, and repairing harm when it occurs. RPAM provides the tools to address mistreatment, misconduct, and the impact of harm; build community; and facilitate collaborative solutions within medical schools, teaching hospitals, and allied health professional institutions. RP is an innovative and effective approach — it holds the offender accountable, addresses the harm and its impact, and focuses on rebuilding trust.
Who Should Attend?
This program welcomes senior leaders, faculty, and staff from academic health systems and other allied health professional institutions seeking a framework to help prevent, manage, and navigate difficult issues.
Upcoming Trainings
August 13-15, 2025
AAMC Learning Center
Washington, D.C.
Learning Objectives
Participants can expect to:
- Participate in an interactive welcome and orientation community circle to become familiar with facilitators and fellow participants.
- Participate in multiple community-building circles to explore the framework of RP, its methodology, and processes to build trust, repair harms, and reintegrate members back into the community.
- Design and practice facilitating circles to support your institutional community-building goals.
- Participate in group circles, discussions and activities, scenario-based role plays, self-reflection assignments, and presentations.
Questions? Email Angela Moses.
“I came to the [Restorative Practices in Academic Medicine] training course knowing little or nothing about the topic. I left the training with a renewed commitment to the idea that we can learn to listen deeply, to effectively develop community, and to repair harm where it exists in our institutions. [RP] is a powerful and transformative tool ripe for deployment in academic medicine.”
RPAM alum