Expandable List
A CE must be able to:
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Develop and describe his or her personal leadership philosophy
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Lead a team toward the completion of an education project
1. Define education scholarship, by
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describing the range of activities that could be included under the umbrella of education scholarship
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applying Glassick’s six standards for evaluating scholarly work
2. Design, plan, and execute a scholarly project in medical education, by
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defining a research question and/or project purpose
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conducting a literature search and identifying the theoretical foundation(s) and conceptual framework(s) that inform the question, innovation, program, or curriculum
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writing a protocol, i.e., describing a study and/or project design, including methodology or a framework to guide decision-making during the course of the project
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identifying resources, including collaborators, mentors, and funding opportunities
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completing the planned project
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disseminating the findings of the research
3. Describe the ethics approval process by
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outlining the key requirements for ethics approval from a relevant institutional ethics review committee or board
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Please refer to the McMaster Task List for the Educational Scholarship Unit for a complete listing of the summative and formative assessments required for this unit.
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Primary Review Form (To be filled by Unit Supervisor)
Articles
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Barbour RS. Making sense of focus groups. Med Educ.2005;39(7):743–50.
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Beattie DS. Expanding the view of scholarship: introduction. Acad Med.2000;75(9):871–6
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Beckman TJ, Cook DA. Developing scholarly projects in education: a primer for medical teachers. Med Teach. 2007;29(2–3):210–8.
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Bordage G. Conceptual frameworks to illuminate and magnify. Med Educ.2009;43(4):312–9.
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Cottrell SA. A matter of explanation: assessment, scholarship of teaching and their disconnect with theoretical development. Med Teach.2006;28(44):305–8.
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DiCicco-Bloom B, Crabtree BF. The qualitative research interview. Med Educ.2006;40(4):314–21.
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Dolmans DH, Tigelaar D. Building bridges between theory and practice in medical education using a design-based research approach: AMEE Guide No. 60. Med Teach.2012;34(1):1–10.
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Fincher FM, Simpson DE, Mennin SP, Rosenfeld GD, Rothman A, McGrew MC, et al. Scholarship in teaching: an imperative for the 21st century. Acad Med.2000;75(9):887–94.
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Fincher RE, Work JA. Perspectives on the scholarship of teaching. Med Educ.2006;40(4):293–5.
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Frye AW, Hemmer PA. Program evaluation models and related theories: AMEE Guide no. 67. Med. Teach. 2012;34(5):e288–99.
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Glassick CE. Boyer’s expanded definitions of scholarship, the standards for assessing scholarship, and the elusiveness of the scholarship of teaching. Acad Med. 2000;75(9):887–80.
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Glassick CE. Reconsidering scholarship. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2000;6(1):4–9.
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Hutchings P, Shulman LS. The scholarship of teaching: new elaborations,new developments. Change.1999;31(5):11–5.
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Kanter SL. Toward better descriptions of innovations. Acad Med.2008;83(8):703–4.
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Martin E, Ramsden P. Introduction. Special issue: Scholarship of teaching. Higher Educ Res Devel.2000;24:163–77.
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Simpson DE, Fincher RM. Making a case for the teaching scholar. Acad Med.1999;74(12):1296–9.
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Wood BP, May W. Academic recognition of educational scholarship. Acad Radiol.2006;13(2):254–7.
Books
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Creswell JW. Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks (CA): Sage;2009.
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Harvey BJ, Lang ES, Frank JR, editors. The research guide: a primer for residents, other health care trainees, and practitioners. Ottawa: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; 2011.
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Norman GR, Eva KW. Quantitative methods. ASME Monograph. Edinburgh (UK): Association for the Study of Medical Education; 2008.
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Springer K. Educational research: a contextual approach. Hoboken (NJ): John Wiley & Sons; 2010.
Book chapters
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Steinert Y. Developing medical educators: a journey, not a destination. In: Swanwick T, editor.Understanding medical education: evidence, theory and practice. Oxford (UK): Wiley-Blackwell /Association for the Study of Medical Education; 2010.p. 403–18.
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Steinert Y, Snell L. Educational innovation and scholarship: from curriculum design to implementation. In: Sherbino J, Frank JR, editors. Educational design. Ottawa (ON): Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; 2011. p. 81–6.
Courses and workshops
Completion of a workshop or course on education scholarship may be valuable. Possibilities include:
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the Scholarship and Innovation in Medical Education (SIME) workshop provided by the Canadian Association for Medical Education (CAME) (www.came-acem.ca/)
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a conference workshop/course
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a national specialty society workshop/course
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a university faculty development course
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a graduate course in research methods
Completion of a workshop or course on ethics may be valuable. Possibilities include:
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an institutional workshop/course
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the Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics Course on Research Ethics (CORE)
Medical education journals
Online resources