Career Medical Education Research Awards Department of Medicine
University of Ottawa
This paper describes the intent of the career awards, the eligibility criteria for these awards, the application process, the duration of the awards and the criteria established for sustaining these awards.
1. The Purpose of Developing Career Medical Education Research Awards
The Career Medical Education Research Awards are available to provide salary support for members of the Department of Medicine whose career development is centered in Medical Education. The Education Career awards are intended to encourage and support members of the Department of Medicine to pursue their academic and scholarly interests in medical education. The purpose of the award is to:
Encourage the conceptualization, design, implementation, and evaluation of a wide variety of innovations in Medical Education including new curricula or courses; assessment instruments; web-based learning material; and teaching strategies to name a few. A clear expectation is that the members’ work be disseminated in order to be considered scholarship.
The Education Grants committee has adopted the expanding view of scholarship within medical education (1) in developing these awards. We view scholarship to include activities within any of the following four components:
1. Scholarship of Discovery: includes the development of original educational research
2. Scholarship of Integration: includes the search for connections between educational discoveries by different approaches or disciplines resulting in novel insights.
3. Scholarship of Application: including the building of bridges between educational theory and practice. This would involve how knowledge can be used in practical situations and the how innovative approaches impact on systems of education.
4. Scholarship of Teaching: including how faculty can effectively communicate knowledge to students, residents and their peers.
The following criteria, as outline by Glassick, will be used as criteria for judging scholarship in education: clear goals; adequate preparation; appropriate methods; significant results; effective presentation and reflective critique. (2)
Career Educator Awards will be available for 3 year terms at the Tier 1 level $60,000 or Tier 2 level $40,000 annually. The following are examples of Tier 1 and Tier 2 productivity.
On an annual basis, Tier 1 awardees will have 1-4 publications accepted/submitted or in print, several abstracts presented at national and international meetings, 1-3 grant submissions, and have several ongoing projects (7-12). An expectation of Tier 1 awardees is that they provide support and mentorship for junior colleagues in the Department of Medicine. Tier 2 awardees will have approximately half the productivity by the end of their 3 year cycle. Please note these are general guidelines only. Annual progress reports and submissions are reviewed by a committee that will review the members proposed projects and progress over time.
2. Eligibility Criteria
Member must be an MD, GFT in DOM/AFP/UOMA. Members can be either Clinical Teachers or Clinical Educators.
Each member of the Department of Medicine who wishes to be considered for an Educator Career Award will be required to provide written documentation of the following:
1. Professional education development plan (maximum one page) including 1 and 3 year goals in educational scholarship.
2. Description of how the member is planning to develop their expertise in education or education research including a description of:
- Any courses they are planning to complete.
- Presentations at National or International education meetings
- Grant applications they are planning to pursue.
- Publications they are planning to complete
- Any other form of educational scholarship (see definitions above) present or planned
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3. A letter of support from their Division Head acknowledging that the member will receive protected time.
4. An updated Curriculum Vitae and Teaching Dossier that includes documentation of any significant results they have achieved in education or educational research
- Presentations of educational innovations, programs, or research papers at national or international meetings over the previous two years.
- Education research publications over the previous two years
- Peer reviewed and non-peer reviewed education grants received over the previous two years.
- Any other evidence of educational scholarship (see definitions above) over the previous two years
5. The amount of time (hours or half days per week) or % effort they are planning to spend in developing their career path in education
3. Application Process
Members of the Department of Medicine who are interested in being considered for a Career Educator Awards will be required to complete an application form (see below). The Education Awards Committee will review and rank the applications at the Tier 1 (senior level) and Tier 2 (junior level) and make recommendations to the Department of Medicine Executive Committee who will allocate the resources for these awards.
4. Career Education Award Duration and Amount
Each Career Educator Award will be allocated on an annual basis. The Education Awards Committee* will review the productivity of each member based on pre-established criteria and will recommend to either continue or not continue the career award. Career Education awards will be $40,000/yr for Tier 2 and $ 60,000/yr for Tier 1.
Criteria for Renewal of Career Educator Awards
The following criteria have been developed to determine the renewal of a Career Educator Award.
Each applicant will be expected to:
-Develop scholarly work on a consistent basis including any publications, grants, or innovations under any of the four areas of scholarship described above.
-All scholarly activity must be developed based on Glassick’s criteria.
-The work must be disseminated. For example, presentations at regional, national and international meetings.
-Demonstrates educational leadership and effectiveness as an educator at the local, national and/or international level.
Please consider completing the enclosed application form if you believe that your career development is in medical education and meets one or more of the criteria established for these awards. Deadline for submission November 18th, 2013. Send applications to Katy Wedgwood.
All applications will be reviewed and ranked by the Education Committee. The Department of Medicine Executive Committee will be responsible to make the final decisions related to these awards.
If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact me either by e-mail: Sue Humphrey-Murto or phone (613) 737-8899 ext 81850.
1) Boyer EL. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1990.
2) Glassick CE, Huber MT, Maeroff GI. Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass 1997.
Updated October 7, 2013