From Idea to Implementation:
Moving your Educational Project
from Brain to Bedside
Timothy Farrell, MD, Utah; Deb Simpson, PhD, MCW; Manuel
Eskildsen, MD, MPH, Emory; Cherie Brunker, MD, Utah;
Kathryn Denson, MD, MCW; Gary Blanchard, MD, UMass; & Kathryn
Eubank, MD, UCSF
2012 Annual Reynolds Grantee Meeting – St. Louis MO / Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 2:45-4:15 PM [Lindell B]
Goals & Objectives
Educational Product Development (EPD)
1. To introduce best practices in EDP
– Objective: Gain familiarity with Glassick’s 6 criteria for the approach to
and assessment of scholarship.
2. To increase participants’ abilities to apply a scholarly approach
to their educational endeavors
– Objective: Apply Glassick criteria to examples (successes & challenges in
EPD processes to avoid pitfalls.
– Objective: Generate common themes framed by the Glassick criteria
associated with the processes of EPD.
3. To apply the concepts learned in the workshop to participants’
own educational product ideas
– Objective: To identify barriers in own educational products.
– Objective: Share strategies for overcoming barriers to product
development, implementation and presentation.
Why do I care @ Sharing Educational Work?
Long-Term Goal
Improve Health through Education

Value and advance our educational missions through
recognition (e.g., award and reward) of educators

Advance education by sharing & building on our work

Educators as scholars
Susan Dorothea White - Reinventing the Wheel 2001 Mixed Media Sculpture – US $5,000
Why Sharing Work = Scholars?
• What is scholarship?
• What does it mean to be scholarly?
• Advance or transform knowledge within their
community of peers (researchers, educators)
– through the application of one’s intellect in
an informed, disciplined and creative manner
Boyer EL. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities for the Professoriate. Princeton University Press 1990
Glassick Criteria
CLEAR GOALS
Reflective Critique
Adequate Preparation
Effective Presentation
Appropriate Methods
Significant Results
Glassick CE, Huber MT, Maeroff GI. Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate. SF: Jossey-Bass 1997.
Glassick For Educators
 Clear Goals
 Adequate Preparation
= Objectives
= Current in educ + subject
matter
Select methods = obj/comp
 Appropriate Methods
=
 Significant Results
 Effective Presentation
 Reflective Critique
= Evaluation
= Dissemination to Peers
= Revise
Glassick CE, Huber MT, Maeroff GI. Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate. SF: Jossey-Bass 1997.
Summary Report & Findings
AAMC GEA Consensus Conference on Educational
Scholarship (July 2007)
• Summary Report & Findings
– Educator Activity Categories, Criteria
and Evidence
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Teaching
Learner Assessment
Curriculum Development
Mentoring and Advising
Educational Leadership & Administration
https://services.aamc.org/Publications go to “Faculty”
Simpson D et al. Medical Education 2007:41(10): 1002–1009
https://www.mededportal.org/download/190392/data/educational_scholarship_guide.pdf
Task Force on Educator Evaluation
FOCUS: Evaluating the 5 Educational Domains
Jonathan Amiel
Brian Mavis
Suzanne Rose
Columbia University
Michigan State University
University of Connecticut
Constance Baldwin
Kathe Nelson
Deb Simpson
University of Rochester
University of Alabama
Medical College of Wisconsin
Latha Chandran
Lois Nora
Henry Strobel
SUNY Stony Brook
Commonwealth Med Col
UT-SoM- Houston
Rhee Fincher
Jamie Padmore
Craig Timm
GHSU/MCG
MedStar Health
University of New Mexico
Nancy Lowitt
Pat O’Sullivan
Tom Viggiano
University of Maryland
UCSF
Mayo Medical School
Maryellen Gusic – Task Force Chair
Indiana University - mgusic@iupui.edu
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Glassick Criteria
CLEAR GOALS
Reflective Critique
Adequate Preparation
Effective Presentation
Appropriate Methods
Significant Results
Glassick CE, Huber MT, Maeroff GI. Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate. SF: Jossey-Bass 1997.
Can You Swallow This?
Kathryn Denson, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine/Geriatrics
Program Director, Med-Ger Residency Program
Medical College of Wisconsin
Clear Goals
• What’s the problem?
Is it “fixable” through education?
• Define the goal
What do you want your Learners
to DO?
• Create objectives
– Link to ACGME competencies
– Link to Milestones
Adequate Preparation
• Current in topic:
Literature review for best practices
• Current in education:
On-line search and check for resources
Adopt
Adapt
Author
Appropriate Methods
Significant results
Evaluation of:
Session– standardized eval form
organization/session content/teacher
effectiveness/impact on ability to provide care
(“so what?”)
Learners– An assessment gap here!
Effective Presentation
• Dissemination to peers:
Here!
• Clearly room for improvement
Reflective Critique
Can You Swallow This?
Clear Goals:
“Why, what” at start
Adequate Preparation: Strong practice gap
Appropriate Methods: Interactive, small group
Needs more time!
Apply to current patient
Significant Results:
Needs learner (KSA) eval
Effective Presentation: Pogo-e, MedEd PORTAL ?
Reflective Critique:
A lot better after creating this
presentation!