Medical Education Scholarship Confessions of an Itinerate Preacher I have used the following slides in seminars and grand rounds I have been invited to give in the past year or so. I share them with SDRME in order to get input to validate/refine the concepts they contain. Boyd

“…those who practice [scholarship] together form a community the whole of which, like Turner’s image of the snow-beleaguered ship, is greater than the sum of the parts. An independent scholar is an oxymoron… scholarship lives in community.” Addeane S. Caelleigh, Editor Academic Medicine, 2000

B Boyer, 1990 “What we urgently need today is a more inclusive view of what it means to be a scholar – a recognition that knowledge is acquired through research, through synthesis, through practice, and through teaching” Scholarship Reconsidered Education Scholarship Discovery Integration Application Teaching

Research (discovery) Educational Scholarship (application, integration, teaching)

B Q 2 + E = Growth Drawing Upon Contributing To Growth in own practice and within field

Q2 + E: Quantity Quality Scholarly Approach (Drawing upon) Glassick: Goals Preparation Methods Self – Reflection Q2 + E: Scholarship (Sharing with) Glassick: Results Dissemination InstructorAssistant ProfessorAssociate Professor Professor Application of Q2+E and Glassick

Methods Matter

Defining …. Probability that “IT” will be considered INNOVATIVE Department School Region Nation Probably that someone else is already doing “IT”