*Information from presentation by Drs. Stephanie Bynum and Jesus Delgado-Calle, Roy Morello, and Christy Simecka*
- Research/Scholarly Work
- Grant awarding and peer-review publications are lengthy processes. Create a 3-5 year plan for your professional career with targets and goals clearly defined. Review and revise as needed.
- High impact journals
- Get a mentoring committee
- Keep an updated CV in multiple versions
- Find your niche where you can quickly begin to be recognized
- Scholarly work requires:
- High level of discipline and related expertise
- Innovation
- Can be replicated or elaborated
- Can be peer reviewed
- Work becomes scholarship when it follows the “3 P’s”:
- Made public
- Available for peer review and critique according to accepted standards
- Able to be reproduced and built upon by others
- Scholarship work in academic medicine creates new knowledge within any of 4 domains (Clinical, education, research, administration)
- Classic Methods
- Peer-reviewed journal articles about original contributions
- Peer-reviewed “review” articles
- Textbooks and chapters; monographs
- Peer-reviewed poster presentations and abstracts
- Newer Methods
- Peer-reviewed web-based materials
- CDs and other forms of enduring materials
- Educational syllabi and curriculum documents
- Patient education materials
- Quality improvement projects
- Clinical practice guidelines
- Classic Methods