Opportunities for Education Scholarship in the Queen’s PGME Transition Designing Competency At Queen’s Workshop February Denise Stockley, PhD, Office of Health Sciences Education Elaine Van Melle, PhD, Education Scientist, RCPSC
Great Expectations Adapted by Dean Reznick Chapter 1: Competency - not time Chapter 2: Competencies-milestones-EPA’s Chapter 3: Curricular reform Chapter 4: Service to education ratio Chapter 5: Faculty development Chapter 6: Simulation Chapter 7: Assessment Chapter 8: Keeping track – self reflection
Great Expectations: Chapter Nine Going Public - Education Scholarship
Outline 1.Lessons learned 2.Our questions 3.Your questions 4.Getting started...
Outline 1.Lessons learned 2.Our questions 3.Your questions 4.Getting started... How can you use CBME to benefit your academic career?
Lessons Learned Medical Education 2014 How can we best support faculty members interested in engaging in education scholarship?
ES is one building block of an academic career Success happens when level & type of involvement is clearly delineated, early on, as part of academic career planning
ES is not synonymous with excellent teaching Hutchings, P. and Shulman, L.S. (1999). Change, 31 (11-15) It requires a kind of “going meta” in which faculty frame and systematically investigate questions related to student learning.
LeadershipScholarship Facilitating change Supporting others in their academic career development Engaging in research Contributing to the field ES is not synonymous with educational leadership
Defining Education Scholarship Education Scholarship is an umbrella term which can encompass both research and innovation in health professions education.
It’s not just about publishing papers... ResearchInnovation Purpose “Continue a conversation” explore for greater understanding Change current practice, improve outcomes of learning, Products Papers, conference presentations, posters Teaching materials, assessment tool, technical paper/report, invited consultations & presentations Keep track of everything!
Van Melle et al. Medical Education 2014 Phase I Phase II Phase III Improve teaching Improve learning Advance the field Excellent Teacher Scholarly Teacher Scholarship of T&L Requires development of new skills & knowledge
Does it Work? “I think you should be more explicit here in Step 2”
Collaboration is Critical
You can ask many questions Design Diffusion Adoption Implementation Cycle of CBME Program Development
PASS: Are we changing the culture of assessment? None of this competency gets at the art of medicine, the stuff that we can’t really measure effectively… we currently in my opinion don’t capture any of that, right?” (AA-11)
You can ask many questions Design Diffusion Adoption Implementation Cycle of CBME Program Development
You can ask many questions Design Diffusion Adoption Implementation Cycle of CBME Program Development Find one and focus!
Our questions... Year 1 1.What key strategies are required to build capacity for CBME? Year 2 2.How do Program Directors & Residents experience the transition process? Year 3 3.How has CBME contributed to changes in behaviours (e.g., relationships, actions, activities, policies or practices) across all levels of the institution?
Your questions... What would you want to know as CBME is being implemented in your program? What supports, resources, skills... would help you to research your question(s)?
Next Steps: Creating Opportunities Year 1 (2015) Winter/SpringResource and Website Development Research Ethics SummerNeeds Assessment FallWorkshops with Faculty Development on Education Scholarship (including What it is, Methods, Dissemination) On-going – Individual and Program Level Discussions and Consultations
Long-term Plan – Building a Collaborative Education Scholarship Approach to CBME ( ) Everyone contributes to the conversation about education scholarship in CBME Those who want to go deeper - ongoing data collection, articles, presentations, reports on the CBME Implementation Edited book based from Queen’s PGME “Great Expectations”
Next Steps: Creating Opportunities For more information or to engage in the process, contact: Denise Stockley –