Here ’s How We Did It: Eliminating Barriers of Early Medical Education Scholarship

Although a randomized, controlled education study may be the ultimate goal in medical education research, a new attending physician may not possess the confidence, experience, or skills to do so in year one. In our Academic Medicine Last Page “Hit the Ground Running: Engaging Early-Career Medical Educators in Scholarly Activity,” we encourage our physician colleagues to broaden the scope of what counts as medical education scholarly work by presenting four tips for learning the landscape, four types of presentation-based work, and four types of publication-based work in order of complexity. To supplement this guide, here is our advice on how each of us hit the ground running early in our careers. Flint Y. Wang, MD is assistant professor of clinical medicine, hospitalist, and director of education for the hospitalist service line, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania When I started as an attending, I had no idea where to start. What and where could I aspire to publish? What topics do journals care about? One thing I now recommend to my mentees is to go to faculty profile websites of attendings in your same specialty at different comparable hospitals. I saw where hospitalists interested in education were publishing and presenting. I learned what leadership roles they were given and to which non-traditional groups they lectured. While there are many paths within medical education, it is much easier to determine y...
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