Recognizing Contributions to Medical Education

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Recognizing Contributions to Medical Education
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Recognizing TeachersWhat Is Out There

• Awards, Master Teacher Societies, Academies,
  Promotion
• Too few individuals, too retrospective, too
  complex, too exclusive/divisive

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Recognizing TeachingThe Challenge

• Design a process to recognize excellence in
  teaching that would be both accessible and
  meaningful.

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Where do We Want to Go3 Goals

• Track educational activity easily and accurately
• Provide the opportunity to evaluate quality in
  teaching and other activities of medical
  education
• Design a recognizable and rigorous peer review
  process in order to achieve validity comparable
  to traditional scholarship

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Recognizing TeachingConsiderations

• Quantity
• Quality
• Roles
• Process that is simple, fair, transparent, and
  recognizable
• Scholarship in teaching

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Educational Scholarship

• Educational scholarship can be defined
• Teaching can be scholarly
• The assessment of scholarship in teaching can be
  improved
• Teaching must be evaluated in order to be
  considered a legitimate scholarly activity
• An infrastructure for supporting educators as
  scholars is needed

From Fincher et al, Academic Medicine September
2000
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Educational Scholarship
Medical schools and professional organizations
have mechanisms to support peer-reviewed
research, but parallel mechanisms for peer review
of teaching scholarship are highly variable,
particularly if the scholarly products are
instructional videotapes, CD-ROMs, course
syllabi, or teaching, rather than manuscripts.
From Fincher et al, Academic Medicine September
2000
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Addressing the Challenge3 Goals

• Track educational activity easily and accurately
• Revise the Faculty Activity Summary (APR)

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Addressing the Challenge3 Goals

• Provide the opportunity to evaluate quality in
  teaching and other activities of medical
  education
• Best Contribution

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Best Contribution

• Range of possible activities
• - Teaching small group, rounds, lecture
• - Curricular innovation or enhancement
• - Research or project
• - Educational leadership role
• - Mentoring
• One to two page narrative
• Glassicks Criteria

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Glassicks Criteria Describing and Evaluating
Scholarship in Teaching

• Clear objectives
• Adequate preparation
• Appropriate Methods
• Measures of quality/effectiveness
• Effective presentation, including making results
  or process available to colleagues
• Reflective critique

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Addressing the Challenge3 Goals

• Design a recognizable and rigorous peer review
  process in order to achieve validity comparable
  to traditional scholarship
• Utilize qualified peer-reviewers to evaluate and
  score the best contribution narratives

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OUR SOLUTION

• Recognizing Contributions to Medical Education at
  CWRU SOM

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A FOUR STEP PROCESS

• Submit Activity Summary or APR with Best
  Contribution narrative
• Summary screened for threshold of overall
  activity
• Qualifying narratives reviewed and scored by peer
  reviewers
• Awards committee makes final recommendations to
  the Dean

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The Process of RecognitionWhat Will It Do?

• Honor faculty who have made an impact on medical
  education through a defined contribution
• Increase the visibility and value of educational
  contributions
• Stimulate personal as well as institutional
  growth and innovation
• Provide a source of peer-reviewed educational
  scholarship for faculty CVs and educational
  portfolios
• Increase the rigor of the educational
  contribution narrative through incorporation of
  defined scholarship criteria

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• Provide a road map for mentoring and guiding
  activity, growth, and expectations
• Create the chance to look at what educators are
  doing and what they value as contributions
  insights that may be helpful in developing areas
  of focus and resource development as well as in
  identifying areas in need of exploration and
  innovation

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RecognitionWhat Does It Mean?

• Individual honor through School of Medicine
• Incorporation into promotion deliberations both
  as a discrete honor and as a peer reviewed,
  validated narrative of teaching contribution
• Incorporation into annual departmental
  performance discussions including issues related
  to salary and protected time
• Publication in an annual SOM journal

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SummaryMeeting the 3 Goals

• Track educational activity easily and accurately
• Revised faculty summary
• Provide the opportunity to evaluate quality in
  teaching and other activities of medical
  education
• Best contribution narrative
• Design a recognizable and rigorous peer review
  process to achieve validity comparable to
  traditional scholarship
• Peer reviewers score narratives