The ever-changing landscape of curricula at health professions schools provides a fantastic opportunity for educational scholarship. In the scholarship of teaching and learning, it is important to disseminate novel and innovative curricula, course activities, and student satisfaction/performance/outcomes data to faculty educators who could benefit from that new knowledge. Furthermore, educational scholarship is a major criterion for educator track faculty promotion and tenure. However, because many early career faculty members have not been exposed to the practices of educational scholarship, it is difficult for them to disseminate their novel teaching and learning methods and discoveries in the form of peer-reviewed presentations and publications.

In this workshop the facilitators will provide a framework for educational scholarship. Participants will then identify a personal educational scholarship project and develop a plan to complete and disseminate it while receiving guidance from experienced faculty members.

Participants will bring an existing educational scholarship project or an idea for an educational scholarship project. The facilitators will deliver practical presentations on several topics with intertwined individual and small group work at mentored tables. The topics presented will help participants plan an educational research project and identify how best to disseminate their work. A comprehensive worksheet will guide participants through the framework for developing their educational scholarship project.