Scholarship in Medical Education

Moderator(s)

• KL

  Karen Law, MD

  Emory University

Speaker(s)

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  Karina Torralba, MD, MACM

  Loma Linda University School of Medicine
• JK

  James Katz, MD

  NIH NIAMS

This session will address underscore the importance of education as a form of scholarship and as a vehicle for effective career promotion, whether in academia or private practice. Faculty will discuss myriad challenges faced by clinicians who want to engage in educational scholarship. These include competing clinical demands, lack of institutional recognition for educational efforts, lack of resources for acquiring teaching and educational research skills, limited funding for educational research, and seemingly narrow recognition by clinical science journals of the importance and foundation of educational research, and how this is closely linked to clinical research paradigms. Proposed solutions to overcome obstacles to successful scholarship publication will be discussed by faculty, including designing educational projects that are clinically relevant, yet are based on sound foundations that utilize educational theories of learning and higher levels of outcomes and assessment.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify various forms of scholarship, underscoring scholarship of education as a viable and important form of scholarship
• Appraise challenges faced by educators that impede their ability to engage in relevant educational scholarship and publish
• Identify avenues for disseminating works of educational scholarship

Presentations:

• 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM ET

  Making Sense of Educational Theory, Outcomes and Assessments
  Karina Torralba, MD, MACM – Loma Linda University School of Medicine
• 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM ET

  Addressing the Barriers to Publication for Clinician Educators
  James Katz, MD – NIH NIAMS
• 5:30 PM – 5:45 PM ET

  Q&A