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Center for Faculty Excellence: Documenting Your Research Efforts
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Documenting Your Research Efforts

*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
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