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With increasing pressures for faculty to “cover their salaries” from research or clinical revenue, incentives are needed more than ever to attract faculty into dedicating a part of their careers to sustaining and improving the education mission. While financial incentives will help, they do not necessarily encourage innovation. Academic Health Centers must reward innovative and scholarly educational contributions of faculty with advancement in academic rank. 

To address this issue, the GEA Steering Committee initiated a national debate about rewarding educational scholarship with the goal to adopt more inclusive definitions and standards. In February, 2006, new and more specific guidelines were developed by the GEA Consensus Conference on Educational Scholarship. At this conference, more than 100 individuals, representing over 50 institutions, discussed how to recognize, present, quantify and evaluate evidence of scholarship in five domains (i.e., teaching, leadership, mentoring, curriculum design, and learner assessment). The outcomes of the conference have been presented at GEA regional meetings, the AAMC annual meeting, and will be presented in published manuscripts. These outcomes include a list of concrete recommendations for individuals and institutions which integrate the recognition of multiple forms of scholarship, an appreciation for new forms of scholarly dissemination, and a commitment to rigorous standards of quality.

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