1. CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE SCHOLARLY CONCENTRATION IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH TO SCIENTIFIC COMPETENCE Ingrid Bahner PhD IAMSE 2013

2. The Scholarly Concentrations Program at the USF MCOM  Health Disparities  Health Systems Engineering  International Medicine  Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Business in Medicine  Law and Medicine  Medicine and Gender  Medical Education  Medical Humanities  Public Health  Biomedical Research

3. The biomedical research scholarly concentration (rSC): Objectives and Goals  The objectives of the Research Scholarly Concentration are to provide a curriculum for scientific training and to aid with the research experience with the long-term goal to foster the students’ competency to practice science based medicine.

4. rSC: Goals and Objectives cont’d  Specifically, the Research Scholarly Concentration program will:  provide the students with a supportive frame work for identifying research interests and aid in finding a research mentor with whom to develop a hypothesis.  identify funding agencies to which students may apply and to facilitate competitive research proposals.

5. rSC: Goals and Objectives cont’d  provide a curriculum that will teach tools for conducting research  provide a forum to develop scientific thinking and presentation skills.  facilitate recognition at the time of graduation

6. rSC: Does the research experience contribute to scientific competence?  Count the number of publications?

7. rSC: Publications

8. rSC: Does the research experience contribute to scientific competence?  Students in the rSC classes of 2013-2015 have universally acknowledged growth as a scholar  Does the “acknowledgment of growth as a scholar” constitute scientific competence and does it affect the practice of medicine?  Exit survey of the graduating class 2013  53% response rate

10. “Programs appreciated my interest in research above and beyond completing a research project which is the norm for students at other institutions. “

12. “I was interested in research before the scholarly concentration. The SC didn't change what I wanted in a residency, but it gave me the tools to do it well.”

13. “Yes, I have come to decide I need to contribute to my field, and research can be a wa to do that”

14. “I have a taste for research and would like I be a mentor “

15. Conclusion  Program evaluations by the 2013-2015 rSC classes as well as the exit survey of the class of 2013 indicate strongly that the majority of rSC students developed the scientific habits of mind for life-long learning.

16. Acknowledgement  Dawn Schocken PhD  Charurut Somboonwit MD  Roberta J. Collins BS  Susan H. Pross PhD