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Health professions education as scholarly work is a burgeoning field that requires time and effort but can be incredibly rewarding. These resources are meant to help faculty and preceptors develop their identities and skills as education scholars. Explore topics such as publishing research, finding support networks, creating mentorship and choosing measurement practices.
For more teaching scholarship resources/support, consider joining the UW-SMPH Education Scholarship Collaborative. Email ofad@med.wisc.edu for more information.
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Hit the Ground Running: Engaging Early-Career Medical Educators in Scholarly Activity
Source: Academic Medicine: The Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Strategies for medical educators to engage in scholarly work sectioned into three categories—Learning the Landscape, Presentation-Based Scholarly Growth, and Publication-Based Scholarly Growth.
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A curated set of resources to guide medical education researchers through the research, writing and publication process by providing insight from leading scholars in health professions education research.
This guide from Ebling Library will help you learn how to successfully search for health educational research literature.
The Editors and Staff of Academic Medicine discuss what editors want by addressing reviewer etiquette, review format and review content.
The Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 2012 Jun. 4(2): 133-137.
This editorial provides concise suggestions for each section of an article, from title to conclusions, to improve an author’s publication success.
This article provides a framework to select potential collaborators.
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A Guide to Basic Statistics for Educational Research (link)
A Guide to Basic Statistics for Educational Research
Learn to describe the application of study designs, variable types, exploratory data analysis, confirmatory (inferential) data analysis, and basic interpretation of results to educational interventions using a four-step approach to choosing a statistical test for educational cases.
A Visual Summary: 32 Of The Most Important Learning Theories
A Visual Summary: 32 Of The Most Important Learning Theories
Review this ‘Learning Theories’ graphic and supporting descriptions for a brief overview of the most critical–and common–learning theories every teacher should know.
See also the larger scale graphic.
AAMC Group on Educational Affairs Annotated Bibliography of Journals (pdf)
AAMC Group on Educational Affairs Annotated Bibliography of Journals
A comprehensive list of journals in educational scholarship. Scroll through the publications to read a description and learn about the topics, types of manuscripts and audience of each journal.
AAMC Scholarly Publishing Webinar Series (link)
AAMC Scholarly Publishing Webinar Series
[Please note that access may require a free account]
This monthly webinar series is hosted by the editorial teams of the AAMC’s 2 peer-reviewed journals, Academic Medicine and MedEdPORTAL. Sessions will cover the importance of publishing your education scholarship and practical suggestions for how to do so successfully, including how to improve your writing and navigate the peer-review and publication processes. Be sure to check back as additional sessions will continue to be added to this series.
ALiEM/ICE Education Theory Made Practical Series (link)
Education Theory Made Practical Series
ALiEM/ICE
This series strives to make education theory accessible to educators by distilling the background and key literature of each theory and grounding them in practical education scenarios. Each post in the series is peer-reviewed and also available compiled in eBook compendiums. Free full pdfs of the first five volumes are available here (scroll to “Education Theories Made Practical Series”), or you can access the series chapter by chapter here.
Assessment and Education Research Skills (AERS) (link)
Assessment and Education Research Skills (AERS)
Explore a list of workshops to develop skills in learner assessment, program evaluation and education research data collection, analysis and dissemination.
Conceptual frameworks to illuminate and magnify (link)
Conceptual frameworks to illuminate and magnify
The use of conceptual frameworks is essential in identifying and formulating solutions for education problems. These frameworks provide different ways of thinking about problems and offer a set of concepts or best practices to guide the development of well-grounded solutions. However, selecting the appropriate conceptual framework requires careful examination of relevant literature and evidence.
Engaging in Health Professions Education Research (link)
Engaging in Health Professions Education Research
Explore resources about getting involved with the educator community, developing skills in education research and building a career as an education scholar from the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine.
Enhancing Educational Scholarship Through Conceptual Frameworks: A Challenge and Roadmap for Medical Educators (link)
Enhancing Educational Scholarship Through Conceptual Frameworks: A Challenge and Roadmap for Medical Educators
Academic Pediatrics. 2019 Mar-Apr. 19(2): 135-141.
[Please note that access to the full version may require netID login]
This article discusses the importance of using conceptual frameworks, which are theories that describe educational and social phenomena, to guide medical education research and interventions. It also provides examples of conceptual frameworks commonly used in medical education and outlines steps for selecting and applying them to educational initiatives.
Author(s): Matthew W. Zackoff MD, Francis J. Real MD, MEd, Erika L. Abramson MD, MS, Su-Ting T. Li MD, MPH, Melissa D. Klein MD, MEd, Maryellen E. Gusic MD
FAIMER Programs in Health Professions Education (link)
Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research
Centralized lists providing information on Ph.D. and Master’s programs in health professions education around the world.
Finding Your People in the Digital Age: Virtual Communities of Practice to Promote Education Scholarship (pdf)
Finding Your People in the Digital Age: Virtual Communities of Practice to Promote Education Scholarship
The Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 2019 Feb. 11(1): 1-5.
Editorial commentary about the importance of medical educators engaging in a virtual community of practice (vCoP) to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and the science of education as well as increase career satisfaction.
Innovation to Dissemination Workshop: Selecting Outcome Measures to Translate Educational Innovations Into Scholarship (link)
Innovation to Dissemination Workshop: Selecting Outcome Measures to Translate Educational Innovations Into Scholarship
MedEdPORTAL. 2018 Oct 9. 14:10759.
How to develop a skill set in identifying outcome measures to turn innovative ideas into medical education scholarship.
Macy Catalyst Awards
The Catalyst Awards for Transformation in Graduate Medical Education are intended to support interventions in the clinical learning environment that enhance graduate medical education and improve the experience of learners. Successful proposals will describe, implement, and evaluate innovative strategies to equip learners with the tools, skills, and strategies to flourish in the clinical learning environment.
Navigating the Educational Scholarship Domain (video)
Navigating the Educational Scholarship Domain
A 50 min webinar given by one of the most respected Radiology Educators, Petra Lewis (Dartmouth).
Needles and Haystacks: Finding Funding for Medical Education Research (link)
Needles and Haystacks: Finding Funding for Medical Education Research
Academic Medicine. 2016 April. 91(4): 480-484.
This article provides resources, suggestions, and strategies for finding funding within a competitive environment that suffers from a lack funding.
NYU Health Sciences Library (link)
NYU Health Sciences Library Medical Education Resources
Collection of medical education journals, databases and authorship tools.
Post-Positivism in the Health Professions Education Scholarship (pdf)
Post-Positivism in the Health Professions Education Scholarship
Academic Medicine. 2019 Nov 19. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000003089
Exploration of the post-positivism research paradigm within health professions education.
Resources for Medical Education and Scholarship (link)
Resources for Medical Education and Scholarship
Comprehensive list of resources providing information on framing, designing, writing, presenting and evaluating medical education scholarship.
The Distinctions Between Theory, Theoretical Framework, and Conceptual Framework (link)
The Distinctions Between Theory, Theoretical Framework, and Conceptual Framework
This article aims to clarify the meaning and differences between the terms theory, theoretical framework, and conceptual framework, which are often used interchangeably in health professions education (HPE) research. The authors describe how these terms are used in two approaches to research commonly used in HPE: the objectivist deductive approach and the subjectivist inductive approach. In addition, the authors identify three uses of theory within subjectivist inductive research: fully inductive theory development, fully theory-informed inductive, and theory-informing inductive data analysis. Clearing up the differences between these terms can help HPE researchers to effectively work with theory, theoretical frameworks, and conceptual frameworks and to avoid the risks of wrongly assuming shared interpretations and applications.
Educational Scholarship Funding Resources (link)
Educational Scholarship Funding Resources
Finding educational scholarship funding opportunities is important for supporting the education mission in academic medicine. This resource provides a list of funding opportunities, ranging from prestigious competitive funds to institutional grants and fellowships, organized into General, UW-Madison, and External Resources.