Scholarships & Innovation
The opportunity to build a school of medicine in a mission-driven way has enabled the SOM team to make intentional choices at every turn. The SOM Vision directly impacted the choices we have made about what to teach, how to teach, and how to structure the curriculum.
This enables us to build an innovative curriculum that builds on existing educational methods and evidence, and is specifically designed to achieve the educational outcomes we have set as our goals.
A key factor to ensure we are achieving our stated outcomes, is the scholarly study of our medical education program. There are many aspects to our Medical Education Scholarship Initiative. Faculty, administrators, staff, students, and community partners all engage in various types of projects and initiatives.
View the abstracts written by recent students in the Medical Education Curriculum Development and Research Electives.
Key components of our Medical Education Scholarship Initiative include:
- Medical Education Journal Club
- Medical Education Scholarship Meeting
- Medical Education Scholarship Tracker
- Medical Education Scholarship Toolkit
Medical Education Journal Club
During our monthly Medical Education Journal Club meetings, members review and discuss recent and important health professions education literature. Please see below for topics discussed, links to full articles and podcasts. SOM faculty and staff can email Toni Cerbo to be added to the invitation list.
Medical Education Scholarship Conference
Our monthly Medical Education Scholarship Meeting contains two types of activities:
(1) Project presentation and discussion
Teams present Medical Education Scholarship projects they are currently working on, and the participants at the meeting discuss questions the team has and provide feedback. Projects can be early on (e.g. “I have this phenomenon I would like to study, and here are my ideas for how to approach this”) or farther along (e.g. presentation of a project that is far along, includes preliminary results and data analysis, and the team has specific questions for the group).
(2) Capacity building
Various topics, skills, and resources will be presented and discussed to build the overall research and scholarship abilities of members of the SOM team.
See the list below for topics from recent meetings. SOM faculty and staff can email Kristian Thame to be added to the invitation list.
Medical Education Scholarship Tracker
Click Here for our Medical Education Scholarship Tracker:
Faculty and staff are encouraged to enter the information for the Medical Education Scholarship projects and initiatives they are working on. This provides an opportunity for others in the SOM to see the exciting work you are doing, and to help you find collaborators. You will need to use your HMSOM credentials to request access to the document.
Medical Education Scholarship Toolkit
Click Here for our Medical Education Scholarship Toolkit which includes resources on medical education journals, how to publish, searching and using the literature, and more.
Below you will find recent topics, articles, and podcasts from recent journal clubs and Scholarship meetings. SOM faculty and staff can email Toni Cerbo to be added to the invitation list for either of these.