As Director of #meded research, I do a lot of consultations. Many of our teaching faculty do not get a lot of mentoring within their departments -- gotta fix this. How is it at your institution?
T1 #meded It takes regularly reminding people at my institution to consider how what they're doing could be scholarly....then having consultations with them.
SDRME has members at over 80 med schools worldwide. If your school has a member (check our website to find out), they can be a great resource for advice and mentoring in #MedEd scholarship
Totally agree. I think that writing should be an integral part of #meded at all levels. Physicians who cannot write with focus and clarity can perpetuate medical errors.
T1: we are lucky enough to have ~10 #meded faculty: 2 MD/PhDs and another 8ish PhDs with training in #edpsych, adult learning, English, and #HPE, among other fields. We are super fortunate tho! https://t.co/hwJt7sS7DH
Which is so ironic, since the basic scientists have such good chops in thinking through projects -- wonder that the brains seem to get turned off when designing #meded research
T1 #meded That's incredible! How will your academy interface with this group? Do you see distinct roles for the academy these faculty aren't fulfilling?
I think many of the tenure-track faculty do only bench research (with cameo teaching) while non-tenure-track faculty (with less motivation to publish) have the major teaching roles in many schools. #meded
#MedEd The Academy will be run out of the Division, so the faculty will plan an integral role in mentoring, educating, etc. And eventually, our Division will likely become a University center, instead of a division inside the department of med.
T1 #MedEd#scholarship happens in lots of ways- #mentor to formal #HMI programs. Key if use #scholar approach begins w clear Q informed by lit, linked to method... as it provides #MedEducators winfo to inform-key Q "does it advance local decisions or "the field"? @AuroraMedEd
I think many of the tenure-track faculty do only bench research (with cameo teaching) while non-tenure-track faculty (with less motivation to publish) have the major teaching roles in many schools. #meded
T1 #meded How do you and @mededdoc get dedicated resources to do that well? I know places set them up but they are still so under resourced it's almost embarrassing.
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T1 #meded Value is found in productivity of an organization. @SDRME_Meded has ample opportunity with its members to do multi-institutional research. We need to do better.
T2: the US Dept of Veterans in the 1990s is a good model here - they needed to improve health outcomes, and realized that a health services research infrastructure would help, so they built and resourced it. Robust scholarship will improve learning outcomes in #MedEd
Good to have a robust office of med ed and office of eval. Should partner with faculty. Need internal/external grant opportunities. Mentorship. More. #meded
T2: I would be in favor of the discussion... but as someone who teaches histology, I do sort of like being a card-carrying cell biologist surrounded by whirring centrifuges and by those who teach in the lab sessions I coordinate. #meded
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T2 #meded I think all deans want their schools to be recognized. Educational scholarship in peer-reviewed journals, presentations at national meetings, etc brings that.
Department of #meded - chair is the dean for education. Dept members have appointments for the % time they spend in education, and they are paid for and answer to the chair. In this sense, the Ed Dean has transparent funds to buy the time of the faculty who do and research #meded
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T1. That's tricky. Many faculty are very wedded to dept for identity. So it's paradigm change for existing. Also other issues and support needed. #meded
T2 #meded The LCME wouldn't mandate it, but they do have some standards related to faculty productivity....and educational scholarship could be part of that explanation.
In our recent site visit, they only cared about scholarship of any kind, and did not ask about, and seemed to have no special interest in #meded research. Gotta change this.
T2 #meded The LCME wouldn't mandate it, but they do have some standards related to faculty productivity....and educational scholarship could be part of that explanation.
T1. One slow change that is happening is formal training in #meded research to get experts. When I finished PhD I didn't do this! So this investment is working. Sometimes slowly... #meded
There needs to be a funding infrastructure. Why doesn’t the @NIH have an “E01” mechanism for educational research? Why does @NSF not fund #meded research, saying it is the purview of NIH? Why can’t we be more like Canada? Catch 22.
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T2 #meded@MedEdChat@Alliance4ClinEd - Reminder to self - peer reviewed endurable work is a means to the end point in achieving Quad Aim (quality, safe care pts and pops and #wellbeing) - Worry that P&T uses this metrics as its what's available. Think impact!
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T2: Bench scientists have teams of postdocs, PhD students, and technicians (and funding), but we #meded faculty are often lone wolves. Collaboration is best.
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T2 Agree we must PROVE our value and important piece per @macyfoundation and many others is alignment of educational outcomes with improve health of the public. We must demonstrate that #Meded scholarship yields value to "the public we serve" @AuroraMedEd
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T2 Agree we must PROVE our value and important piece per @macyfoundation and many others is alignment of educational outcomes with improve health of the public. We must demonstrate that #Meded scholarship yields value to "the public we serve" @AuroraMedEd
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I think we need to graduate some #meded masters and PhD students who go out into the #MilMed system and do great things! That’s step 1.
We are also starting to provide certificates in #HPE to medical students, to get them to drink the Kool-Aid early!
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T3 #meded I think we already see a lot of organizations trying to offer funding for projects. All too often they are not very large pots that can accomplish much.
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T2 Agree we must PROVE our value and important piece per @macyfoundation and many others is alignment of educational outcomes with improve health of the public. We must demonstrate that #Meded scholarship yields value to "the public we serve" @AuroraMedEd
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T3 If we want $$$ we need to join the effort to @JournalofGME has called for it and no2 @AcademicMed. #MedEd and Health Care Delivery: A Call to Better Align Goals and Purposes. - PubMed - NCBI https://t.co/yWZiMTC4zY
Giving a shout out to @macyfoundation and others who have focused on #MedEd research. Organizations like @AAMCtoday can help to lobby other foundations to have a focus in part on #meded scholarship.
Maybe we need to mount a concerted #SoMe and conventional media campaign that targets top students applying to med school -- teach them the questions to ask that highlights things like what UHUHS is doing as a desirable in choosing a med school. #meded
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T3: We actually have 30 out of 180 first-yr students in a #meded elective. Of their final project proposals for the course, many become projects, posters, and hopefully papers. Some end up working with faculty in a med ed Scholarly Concentration Program.
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T3 #meded So this is an area that the #LCME has raised....and that is research opportunities for #medstudents Why aren't we providing just as many #meded research opportunities as other types of research?
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Final thought: Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets. The problems with funding, promoting, and protecting #meded scholarship is no exception. We need to work to change this system.
T3 #MedEd scholars - #SDRME Let's help students and faculty think about approaching questions using #scholarly approach linked to competencies like communication, systems based practice, professionalism do get "win-win-wins" to improve learning and impact!
#meded Final Thoughts: #meded scholarship is undoubtedly important. #teamwork is vital to the process, which is why @SDRME_Meded could play key roles in advancing #meded scholarship
I'm fairly junior in my career but the good news is how much things are shifting towards #meded & research. I'm pretty lucky I ended up #GWSMHS to do this when I had no idea what I was doing! Also I just finished MEd 😁
#MedEd can learn from the VA and health services research: Build infrastructure through centers of excellence and career development. We need to band together and advocate for this.
+1 - and minimizing the chance of clogs/problematic diversions. It seems like only recently has #MedEd been recognized by many specialties. Not sure if all residents are encouraged or supported down this pipe. #leaky
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