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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 identites 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.
Just In Time
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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.
Follow this diagram to assess potential collaborators.
Deeper Dive
If you have more time to invest, these Deeper Dive resources are longer and/or more in depth so you can gain a deeper understanding of Teaching & Learning Strategies.
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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 Webinar — Publishing in Academic Medicine: Meet the Editor and Tips for Success (video)
Publishing in Academic Medicine: Meet the Editor and Tips for Success
AAMC Fostering Scholarship in Medical Education Series
*Note: This webinar is also available in a mobile friendly format.
In this webinar, participants will learn about Academic Medicine, one of the AAMC’s peer reviewed journals. Speakers will discuss the journal’s focus areas, submission process, tips for successful publication, and available resources for authors and reviewers. New Editor-in-Chief Laura Roberts, MD, MA will introduce herself and share her vision for the future of the journal. There will be time for Q&A with Dr. Roberts and a member of the editorial staff.
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Describe the focus areas of the journal,
- Describe the peer-review process and common reasons for rejection, and
- Identify available resources for authors and reviewers.
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.
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.
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.
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.