Presentation to the Academy of Medical Educators by Caren Stalburg, MD, MA

1. Transforming Your Educational Efforts into Scholarship
Caren M. Stalburg, MD MA
Academy of Medical Educators
University of Michigan Medical School
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
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2. Disclosures
• No relevant conflicts of interest

3. Today’s Outcomes
• Understand definitions of
educational scholarship
• Identify opportunities for turning
teaching efforts into scholarship
• Share strategies for success
• Discover dissemination venues
• Plan next steps

4. Research
Basic/Bench Applied/Clinical

5. What’s Our Science??
Cognitive science
– Diagnostic
decisions
Competency
– Milestones
Health systems
– Safety, quality
Pedagogy
– Flipped
classroom
– Simulation
– Online
Assessment
– Performance

6. Where are our labs??

7. Take a minute----
Who are your learners???
Where do you do most of
your teaching???
Do you have a formal role or responsibility
for programs or curriculum???
What types of teaching do you
mainly engage in???
Can you identify underlying
educational theories
guiding your teaching efforts???

8. Safety Dosing Effectiveness
Liked it
Made a
difference
Better than
before

9. Where to begin???
• Do you need a question?
• Do you need a study design?
• What kind of data do you need?
• Do you need help figuring out what to
do with data you already have???

10. Small Group Discussions

12. Report out from the groups

13. What is Scholarship??
• Discovery
– Advances knowledge, original research
• Integration
– Synthesis of information across disciplines
• Application/engagement
– Practical application, service
• Teaching and learning
– Communicating knowledge to learners
Ernest L. Boyer, Scholarship reconsidered, 1990
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

14. Quality Scholarship has:
Clear goals
Adequate preparation
Appropriate methods
Significant results
Effective presentation
Reflective critique
Charles E. Glassick 2000. Acad Med; 75:877-880

18. Steps for scholarly projects
• Refine the study question
• Identify designs and methods
• Select outcomes

19. • Refine the study question
• Literature review
• Problem statement
• Conceptual framework
• Statement of study intent
• Identify designs and methods
• Experimental
• Observational
• Validity
• Qualitative
• Systematic reviews
• Select outcomes

20. Kirkpatrick’s Outcomes Hierarchy
Applied to a curricular intervention
Impact on patients
“their patients showed improvement”
Impact on clinical practice
“they changed what they did”
Attitude, Skills, Knowledge
“they scored higher on a test”
Satisfaction, Preference
“they liked it”
Kirkpatrick, 1996

21. Health Science Subject Guides
http://guides.lib.umich.edu/MHPE
Taubman Health Sciences Library

22. Where to submit???
• Meetings
– Local, regional, national
• On-line peer review options
– MedEdPortal
– Medical Educator Online
• Journals
– Academic Medicine
– Teaching and Learning in Medicine
– Medical Teacher

26. Next steps !!!
• Ideas for the Academy?
• Ideas in your Department?
• Support
– Science X-Prize
– DPE Buddy grants
• medicine.umich.edu/dept/learning-health-sciences
• carens@umich.edu