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Title:
Scholarship of Application: When Service is Scholarship - A Workshop for Medical Educators
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MedEdPORTAL ID#:
7734
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Version:
1
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Resource Type:
Faculty Development Materials
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Description:
This workshop is designed for delivery to a group of health care educators interested in advancing their scholarship in medical education. A detailed instructors' manual provides all information necessary for facilitators to conduct the workshop. The goal of this workshop is to provide participants with practical guidance for turning their educational service into scholarship. Through this workshop, participants will develop a firm understanding of the scholarship of application, one of the four types of scholarship outlined by Ernest Boyer in 1990.
The scholarship of application involves service and the use of knowledge to solve problems of individuals or society. Examples of applying knowledge in medical education include curriculum development, clerkship restructuring, and development and implementation of evaluation tools or new programs. While medical educators typically engage in such activities, many do not recognize that such activities have the potential to qualify as scholarship. Participants will have the opportunity to go through the process of moving an educational project through the steps necessary for it to qualify as high quality scholarship, based on Glassick¿s six characteristics of scholarship. Finally, participants will have the opportunity to apply the characteristics of scholarship to their own educational endeavors and discuss opportunities for the dissemination of such work. This workshop was developed by the Research and Scholarship Task Force of Council for Medical Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) to support and recognize scholarship of medical educators.
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Author Institution:
New York University School of Medicine
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Primary Author:
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Linda Tewksbury, M.D.
New York University School of Medicine
Department of Pediatrics
550 First Avenue
New York,
NY
10016
USA
212-562-6430
lrt1@nyumc.org
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Other Authors:
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Robin
English, M.D.
Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans
REngli@lsuhsc.edu
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Cynthia
Christy, M.D.
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Cynthia.Christy@rochestergeneral.org
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Joseph
Gigante, M.D.
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
joseph.gigante@Vanderbilt.Edu
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Antoinette
Spoto-Cannons, M.D.
University of South Florida College of Medicine
aspotoc@health.usf.edu
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Nasreen
Talib, M.D.
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
ntalib@cmh.edu
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Janice
Hanson, Ph.D.,, Ed.S.
Uniformed Services U of the Health Sci F Edward Hebert SOM
jhanson@usuhs.mil
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Resource File(s):
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Additional Resource File Information:
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1.zip file containing three of the following resource files:
1.) Instructors_Guide.doc
2.) Scholarship_of_Application_Workshop.pptx
3.) Copyright_License.pdf
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Content Last Updated:
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| 02/01/2009 |
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Specialty/Discipline:
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Medicine: Undergraduate Medical Education
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Educational Objectives:
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1.) To be able to define the scholarship of application and the six characteristics of high-quality scholarship;
2.) To be able to critique, review examples of application in medical education for evidence of scholarship;
3.) To be able to apply the characteristics of scholarship to their own educational applications.
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Resource Keyword/Symptom:
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Medical Education
Scholarship
Scholarship of Application
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Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Competencies Addressed:
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Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
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Intended Learner Audience:
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Medical Fellows
Continuing Medical/Dental Education (CME) for Faculty Self Learning
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Intended Faculty Audience:
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Clinical Science Faculty
Clerkship Director / Clinical Science Course Director
Residency Program Directory
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Effectiveness and Significance of Publication:
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This workshop has been evaluated in the following ways by participants of the workshop at the annual meeting of a professional organization for pediatric medical educators (Tewksbury L, Hanson J, Christy C, English R, Spoto-Cannons A & Talib N (2008) The Scholarship of Application: When Service is Scholarship. Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Apr. 2008). Participants included educators with a range of experience, from junior faculty new to medical education to senior faculty with significant educational experience. Educators were from institutions from across the country (Northeast, Southeast, West Coast, and Midwest all represented) as well as Canada.
Twenty-five of approximately 30 participants completed the meeting¿s standardized evaluation form required for CME. Nearly all rated the workshop ¿excellent¿ (5 on a 5-point Likert scale) in delivery, content, objectives met, interactivity and overall effectiveness, with an average score of 4.8 for overall effectiveness. Twenty-nine of approximately 30 participants completed a workshop peer feedback form developed specifically for this workshop, designed to provide information that would help the planners revise the workshop for future presentations. Nearly all agreed or strongly agreed that the workshop allowed them to be fully engaged, helped them see how to turn their projects or service into scholarship, provided a balance between theoretical and practical information, and provided useful resources.
Comments on the peer review feedback form indicated that the participants especially appreciated the systematic analysis of the concept of ¿scholarship of application;¿ interactive time to discuss, reflect, apply concepts to specific examples, and develop ideas for their own projects; and the provision of practical worksheets as tools to develop projects at home. The comments also emphasized the importance of enthusiastic, knowledgeable and supportive facilitators in the small groups.
Over a year after the workshop, participants were contacted regarding the impact of the workshop on their subsequent scholarly pursuits. Outcomes the participants were able to cite included specific examples of curricula developed or modified based on knowledge and skills gained from the workshop. Two participants had manuscripts considered scholarship of application subsequently accepted for publication. Participants also commented on their use of the information provided on characteristic of scholarship in reviewing educationally related journal articles and peer-reviewed resources as well as during institutional committee meetings focused on educational issues. In addition, the experience of developing and facilitating this workshop has had a very positive impact on the original facilitators. Outcomes generated by this group include the scholarly development of several new curricula, a successfully funded grant, a book chapter, and local ¿best poster¿ award; all incorporating materials and skills developed through this workshop.
Additional details of the workshop¿s effectiveness may be found in the Instructors¿ Guide, section on Workshop Evaluation and Reflective Critique (pages 17-19).
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Special Implementation Requirements or Guidelines:
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| This workshop was initially developed as a 90 minute workshop but could easily be adapted to a 120 minutes. Ideal participant:facilitator ratio is 1:6. Detailed guidelines are provided in the Instructors' Manual. |
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Lessons Learned:
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In preparing for this workshop, facilitators themselves (all experienced medical educators) initially struggled with the definition of Scholarship of Application as applied to medical education, finding little published in the literature. As we further explored and discussed this topic, all agreed that there was tremendous opportunity for medical educators for this type of scholarship, but little practical guidance for how to take an educational project and turn it into scholarship. In addition, facilitators found the process of creating and working through the steps provided by the workshop themselves to be very beneficial for their own professional development. Each facilitator was able to identify a current or past project and develop a better understanding of the specific steps needed to ensure that the project met criteria for high-quality scholarship.
Immediately following the workshop, all facilitators debriefed on the experience, reflecting on the comments provided by participants both verbally and on the peer feedback forms that were immediately available. Facilitators discussed strengths and challenges of the workshop and discussed potential modifications for future workshops. Facilitators were impressed by the overall positive response to the workshop and how valuable and relevant it was to the participants' work. Recommendations for improvement emphasized the need for more time (one reason we provided an alternative schedule for a two-hour workshop in this instructor's guide) and requested a more complete bibliography of published examples of the scholarship of application (now included in the reference section of the instructor's guide).
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Publications, Presentations, and/or Citations For This Publication:
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| Tewksbury L, Hanson J, English R, Spoto-Cannons A, Talib N. The Scholarship of Application: When Service is Scholarship. Workshop presentation, annual meeting of the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics, April, 2008, Atlanta, GA |
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Sponsorship (Funding Source):
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| None. |
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Citation Formats:
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NLM:
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Tewksbury L , English R, Christy C, Gigante J, Spoto-Cannons A, Talib N, et al.
Scholarship of Application: When Service is Scholarship - A Workshop for Medical Educators. MedEdPORTAL;
2009.
Available from: http://services.aamc.org/30/mededportal/servlet/s/segment/mededportal/?subid=7734
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APA:
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Tewksbury, L., English, R., Christy, C., Gigante, J., Spoto-Cannons, A., Talib, N., et al.
(2009).
Scholarship of Application: When Service is Scholarship - A Workshop for Medical Educators. MedEdPORTAL:
http://services.aamc.org/30/mededportal/servlet/s/segment/mededportal/?subid=7734
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