Creating a medical education enterprise: leveling the playing fields of medical education vs. medical science research within core missions.
Med Educ Online
; 22(1): 1377038, 2017.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Unlike publications of medical science research that are more readily rewarded, clinician-educators' scholarly achievements are more nebulous and under-recognized.OBJECTIVE:
Create an education enterprise that empowers clinician-educators to engage in a broad range of scholarly activities and produce educational scholarship using strategic approaches to level the playing fields within an organization.DESIGN:
The authors analyzed the advantages and disadvantages experienced by medical science researchers vs. clinician educators using Bolman and Deal's (B&D) four frames of organization (structural, human resource, political, symbolic). The authors then identified organizational approaches and activities that align with each B&D frame and proposed practical strategies to empower clinician-educators in their scholarly endeavors.RESULTS:
Our medical education enterprise enhanced the structural frame by creating a decentralized medical education unit, incorporated the human resource component with an endowed chair to support faculty development, leveraged the political model by providing grant supports and expanding venues for scholarship, and enhanced the symbolic frame by endorsing the value of education and public recognition from leaderships. In five years, we saw an increased number of faculty interested in becoming clinician-educators, had an increased number of faculty winning Educational Awards for Excellence and delivering conference presentations, and received 12 of the 15 college-wide awards for educational scholarship. These satisfactory trends reflect early success of our educational enterprise.CONCLUSIONS:
B&D's organizational frames can be used to identify strategies for addressing the pressing need to promote and recognize clinician-educators' scholarship. We realize that our situation is unique in several respects, but this approach is flexible within an institution and transferable to any other institution and its medical education program. ABBREVIATIONS B&D Bolman and Deal; CRIS Center for Research, Innovation, and Scholarship; OOR Office of Research.Palavras-chave
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Editoração
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Faculdades de Medicina
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Ensino
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Pesquisa Biomédica
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Educação Médica
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Med Educ Online
Assunto da revista:
EDUCACAO
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos