Education Scholarship is a important and rewarding way that educators can contribute to the growing body of knowledge about teaching and learning, share their high-quality resources, curricula, and other materials with other educators, and help improve the education of health professionals. Scholarship involves engaging in inquiry to understand how, why, and to what extent our educational efforts affect learning. Scholarship can include curriculum development, teaching, learner assessment, program evaluation, advising and mentoring, faculty development, and educational leadership an adminstration. Scholarship involves conducting inquiry in a systematic way; building on exisitng knowledge, theory, and evidence; disseminating the work so others can provide feedback, apply it in their own practice, and build on it; and engaging in reflective critique and improvement. On this page, we provide resources that can support your scholarly pursuits, including opportunities for Consultations, Professional Development, Dissemination, and Resources
If you would like to read more about Education Scholarship, this article is a great place to start: Crites GE, Gaines JK, Cottrell S, et al. Medical education scholarship: an introductory guide: AMEE Guide No. 89. Med Teach. 2014;36(8):657-674.
Consultations
Do you have an idea for a research or scholarly project that you'd like to discuss? A project underway that you'd like help with? An abstract or manuscript you'd like guidance or feedback on? We'd be happy to meet with you - just complete a consultation request and one of us from the PRO-cess team willl be in touch with you.
Professional Development - opportunities to build knowledge and skills
- Center for Faculty Educators (CFE) - offers a variety of excellent workshops on core skills for scholarship such as survey design, qualitative research, writing abstracts. Also offers a Research Certificate
- Teaching Scholars Program (TSP) - a yearlong faculty development program with a focus on education scholarship
- Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) workshops - offered by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
- Scholarly Publishing Webinar Series - hosted by the AAMC, Academic Medicine and MedEdPortal, recordings of past webinars available
- Podcasts - the PAPERs podcast (formerly KeyLIME), Academic Medicine, Medical Education, the Curbsiders Teach
- ESCape (Tuesdays 12-1pm) - weekly works in progress session for education projects and education research
- Equity and Justice in Education (EJE) - Monthly (Tues 1-2pm) works in progress session for education projects and research involving equity and justice in health professions education
- Health Professions Education monthly journal club
Dissemination - share your work with others
Conferences are an excellent way to share your scholarship with others. We have listed a few of the professional and educational meetings below, but also check your specialty conference for education sections.
- Society of General Internal Medicie (SGIM)
- Western Group on Educational Affairs Reional Meeting (WGEA)
If you would like to publish your work, this annoted list of Health professions Education journals is an excellent resource. The AAMC also has an excellent site on Fostering Scholarship in Medical Education.
Resources
Helpful Articles
- Preparing Conference Presentations, Posters, Infographics, Visual Abstracts
- Kulasegaram K, Buller D, Whitehead C. Taking presentations seriously: Invoking narrative craft in academic talks. Perspect Med Educ. 2017 Aug;6(4):270-272.
- Reynolds G. What is good presentation design? Presentation Zen Blog Post. 2017.
- Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. Resources for making better Powerpoint presentations.
- Hess GR, Tosney KW, Liegel LH. Creating effective poster presentations: AMEE Guide no. 40. Med Teach. 2009; 31(4):319-21.
- Trivedi SP, Chin A, Ibrahim A, Ou A. Infographics and Visual Abstracts. J Grad Med Educ. 2021;13(4):581-582.
- Spicer JO, Coleman CG. Creating Effective Infographics and Visual Abstracts to Disseminate Research and Facilitate Medical Education on Social Media. Clin Infect Dis. 2022; 74(Suppl_3):e14-e22.
- Networking at Conferences
- Scholarly Writing
- Writing abstracts
- Writing up Innovations
- Peer review
UCSF / Local funding for scholarship
- Innovations Funding for Education - funds innovative education projects in curriculum, assessment, teaching, faculty development. Concept Proposal Due Date: typically Sept.
- UCSF Hellman Fellowships - provides funding to assistant professors making outstanding contributions to DEI and health equity, basic, clinical, or translational research. Call for Proposals: typically February. Applications Due: typically April.
Regional / National funding for scholarship
- Current Opportunity: Picker Gold Graduate Medical Education (GME) Challenge Grant Program. The program provides 18-month grants of $15,000-$25,000 to support the research and development of innovative projects in GME with particular focus on the values of diversity, equity, inclusion and ant-racism. Applications Due: Monday, April 10, 2023 11:59pm PT.
- WGEA mini-grants - to promote scholarship in medical education that examines interventions, modalities, and educational content created within the Western region. Applications Due: typically September
- GEA national grant - funds research projects that address important problems or questions in medical education. Pre-Proposals Due: typically December
- National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) Stemmler Medical Eduction Research Fund - supporting researchers in their work to develop innovative approaches for the assessment of medical education. Due Date: typically March
- The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Research Intitute Grants - supporting research related to humanism in health care. Applications Due: Fall, typically November.
- Society for Directors of Research in Medical Education (SDRME) - call for review paper proposals that will make a substantial contribution to advancing practice, theory or research in medical education. Due Date: typically October.
- Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards, Grants, Faculty Scholars Program - Funds multiple types of opportunities in priority areas. Timelines vary by funding mechanism.
- Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME) Phil R. Manning Research Award - supports research in continuing professional development. Letters of Intent Due: typically December. Also has an Early Career Research Grant.
Also See Table 1 in this paper: Gruppen LD, Durning SJ. Needles and Haystacks: Finding funding for medical education research. Acad Med. 2016; 91(4):480-484.