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Small Steps to Successful Scholarship in Health Professions Education
Poh-Sun Goh
Associate Professor and Senior Consultant
Department of Radiology, National University of Singapore (NUS) and National University Hospital, Singapore
National University Health System, Singapore
Associate Member, Center for Medical Education, NUS

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How can we make learning, professional practice and development, and scholarship accessible and available to all?
Whether a new student, novice practitioner, or early scholar?

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How can we make learning, professional practice and development, and scholarship accessible and available to all?
Whether a new student, novice practitioner, or early scholar?
We o
ff
er the following 'recipe' and process

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How can we make learning, professional practice and development, and scholarship accessible and available to all?
Whether a new student, novice practitioner, or early scholar?
We o
ff
er the following 'recipe' and process
We learn in small bites (bytes). Taking small (micro-) steps. Small (micro-) e
ff
orts.
These add up, accumulate, compound and cumulatively, with instruction, guidance,
re
fl
ection and feedback, supported by a practice environment and Community of
Practice (CoP) lead to progressive mastery - knowledge, skills and attitudes (heads,
hands and hearts).

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How can we make learning, professional practice and development, and scholarship accessible and available to all?
Whether a new student, novice practitioner, or early scholar?
We o
ff
er the following 'recipe' and process
We learn in small bites (bytes). Taking small (micro-) steps. Small (micro-) e
ff
orts.
These add up, accumulate, compound and cumulatively, with instruction, guidance,
re
fl
ection and feedback, supported by a practice environment and Community of
Practice (CoP) lead to progressive mastery - knowledge, skills and attitudes (heads,
hands and hearts).
Technology tools and platforms, and (social-professional) networks, institutional,
organisational and loose CoP networks, support and facilitate Learning, Practice and
Scholarship.

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"How can we make learning, professional practice and development, and scholarship accessible and available to all?
Whether a new student, novice practitioner, or early scholar?
We o
ff
er the following 'recipe' and process:
We learn in small bites (bytes). Taking small (micro-) steps. Small (micro-) e
ff
orts.
These add up, accumulate, compound and cumulatively, with instruction, guidance, re
fl
ection and feedback,
supported by a practice environment and Community of Practice (CoP) lead to progressive mastery - knowledge,
skills and attitudes (heads, hands and hearts).
Technology tools and platforms, and (social-professional) networks, institutional, organisational and loose CoP
networks, support and facilitate Learning, Practice and Scholarship.”
above
fi
rst posted on
https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2022/06/micro-learning-micro-practice-and-micro.html

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What does a single small step, of Micro-Learning, Micro-Practice and Micro-Scholarship look like?

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What does a single small step, of Micro-Learning, Micro-Practice and Micro-Scholarship look like?
Consider one unit, one piece of knowledge or skill. At its most granular level. For example one concept, it's
de
fi
nition, how to use and apply it. One illustration. One demonstration (of a skill). Add a single (or more)
instructional idea or tip, a single (or more) re
fl
ection, and example(s) of application to form a unit of individual
Micro-Learning, Micro-Practice and through open engagement and (digital) practice Micro-Scholarship.

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What does a single small step, of Micro-Learning, Micro-Practice and Micro-Scholarship look like?
Consider one unit, one piece of knowledge or skill. At its most granular level. For example one concept, it's
de
fi
nition, how to use and apply it. One illustration. One demonstration (of a skill). Add a single (or more)
instructional idea or tip, a single (or more) re
fl
ection, and example(s) of application to form a unit of individual
Micro-Learning, Micro-Practice and through open engagement and (digital) practice Micro-Scholarship.
We See (are exposed to, and observe), Do (explore, practice with guidance, re
fl
ection and feedback),
Teach (including peer teaching and sharing, learn through recall, explanation, elaboration and recall),
and engage in Scholarship (through documenting, writing, producing e.g. creating, curating,
combining, integrating, applying and using - teaching and sharing; the Scholarship of Discovery,
Integration, Application and Practice-Teaching [Boyer], with intentionality and informed [Glassick] and
through open (digital) practice [Shulman]).

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What does a single small step, of Micro-Learning, Micro-Practice and Micro-Scholarship look like?
Consider one unit, one piece of knowledge or skill. At its most granular level. For example one concept, it's
de
fi
nition, how to use and apply it. One illustration. One demonstration (of a skill). Add a single (or more)
instructional idea or tip, a single (or more) re
fl
ection, and example(s) of application to form a unit of individual
Micro-Learning, Micro-Practice and through open engagement and (digital) practice Micro-Scholarship.
We See (are exposed to, and observe), Do (explore, practice with guidance, re
fl
ection and feedback),
Teach (including peer teaching and sharing, learn through recall, explanation, elaboration and recall),
and engage in Scholarship (through documenting, writing, producing e.g. creating, curating,
combining, integrating, applying and using - teaching and sharing; the Scholarship of Discovery,
Integration, Application and Practice-Teaching [Boyer], with intentionality and informed [Glassick] and
through open (digital) practice [Shulman]).
We learn, practice and engage in scholarship in small steps. Which add up. Accessible
and available to all.

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"What does a single small step, of Micro-Learning, Micro-Practice and Micro-Scholarship look like?
Consider one unit, one piece of knowledge or skill. At its most granular level. For example one concept, it's de
fi
nition,
how to use and apply it. One illustration. One demonstration (of a skill). Add a single (or more) instructional idea or tip,
a single (or more) re
fl
ection, and example(s) of application to form a unit of individual Micro-Learning, Micro-Practice
and through open engagement and (digital) practice Micro-Scholarship.
We See (are exposed to, and observe), Do (explore, practice with guidance, re
fl
ection and feedback), Teach (including
peer teaching and sharing, learn through recall, explanation, elaboration and recall), and engage in Scholarship
(through documenting, writing, producing e.g. creating, curating, combining, integrating, applying and using -
teaching and sharing; the Scholarship of Discovery, Integration, Application and Practice-Teaching [Boyer], with
intentionality and informed [Glassick] and through open (digital) practice [Shulman]).
We learn, practice and engage in scholarship in small steps. Which add up. Accessible and available to all.”
above
fi
rst posted on
https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2022/06/micro-learning-micro-practice-and-micro.html

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https://www.slideshare.net/dnrgohps/illustrated-stacked-microscholarship-steps-along-academic-path-of-educational-scholar
https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2021/05/buildingblocksofscholarship-in.html

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https://www.slideshare.net/dnrgohps/illustrated-stacked-microscholarship-steps-along-academic-path-of-educational-scholar
https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2021/05/buildingblocksofscholarship-in.html

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https://www.slideshare.net/dnrgohps/illustrated-stacked-microscholarship-steps-along-academic-path-of-educational-scholar
https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2021/05/buildingblocksofscholarship-in.html

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Scholarship of Integration
Scholarship of Application
Scholarship of Teaching / Practice
Scholarship of Discovery / Creation / Innovation
'Micro-Scholarship' - 'Document (each and every) individual 'step' taken as part of curating,
creating, innovating, discovering, integrating, applying, teaching and professional practice as an
academic scholar in Medical Education / Health Professions Education and Training', Poh-Sun Goh,
25 May 2021, 1255am, Singapore Time
https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2021/05/buildingblocksofscholarship-in.html

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https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2021/05/categories-of-scholarship-in-medical.html

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https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2021/05/categories-of-scholarship-in-medical.html

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https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2021/05/categories-of-scholarship-in-medical.html

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https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2021/05/categories-of-scholarship-in-medical.html

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From
https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/
2020/04/iamse-2020-plenary-presentation-
medical.html
Goh, PS. Medical Educator Roles of the Future. (2020). Med.Sci.Educ.
30 (Suppl 1), 5–7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-020-01086-w

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From
https://microscholarship.blogspot.com/2022/05/
micro-scholarship-as-missing-piece-in.html
Goh, P.S., Roberts-Lieb, S., & Sandars, J. (2022). Micro-Scholarship: An
innovative approach for the
fi
rst steps for Scholarship in Health
Professions Education. Medical Teacher, 1–6. Advance online
publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2022.2133689

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From

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To
Goh, PS, Schlegel, E. Small, Sustainable, Steps to
Success as a Scholar in Health Professions Education -
Micro (Macro and Meta) Matters. (The Asia Paci
fi
c
Scholar, submitted revision on 3 October 2022, accepted
for publication 1 November 2022).

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Our 'pitch' and key takeaway is a simple one:
That Learning, and Scholarship are similar; both taken in small iterative, cumulative steps. We
learn best and engage in scholarship working together within a Community of Interest and
Community of Practice. Scholarship is open, public practice, an extension of learning. We "See
(one), Do (one), Teach (one) … Write (‘do’ Scholarship .. then ‘be’ a Scholar .. then) Teach (again)”.
We "Take Note, Make Notes, then Share Notes".
- Poh-Sun Goh, 26 November 2022, Saturday, 0423am, Singapore Time
https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2022/10/small-steps-to-successful-scholarship.html

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Thank you