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Webcast Audio Seminar Series

 

 Educational Research and Scholarship

 

Documenting, Evaluating, and Rewarding Educational Scholarship

Presented by Ruth-Marie E. Fincher, MD
Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine

 

 Description

Teaching is a core mission of all medical schools, but often is undervalued in reward systems, compared to research and clinical care, both of which generate revenue. Valuing teaching and scholarship related to teaching is important for medical schools to improve the quality of teaching and to advance the field of medical education.

In this webcast audio seminar, Dr. Fincher will define the continuum of teaching, scholarly teaching, and scholarship of teaching based on review of the non-medical and medical literature. She will describe scholarship as advancing or transforming knowledge in a field through creative application of one’s intellect in an informed, disciplined and creative manner. Scholarly products are judged by peer review for quality and public dissemination for others to learn from and build upon. Products of the scholarship of teaching should be peer reviewed through a mechanism that parallels the peer review of manuscripts and grants. Dr. Fincher will present examples of products of the scholarship of teaching, and discuss venues and methods for peer review and public dissemination. She will describe the AAMC’s Group on Educational Affairs’ Competencies Across the Continuum of Healthcare Education (CACHE) project as an example of a web-based vehicle for peer review. She will discuss educator’s portfolios as a mechanism for documenting teaching and scholarly contributions and then can be used for professional development or presentation of accomplishments to a promotion and tenure committee.

 

 


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