Multiple Wins: Embracing Technology to Increase Efficiency and Maximize Efforts

Abstract

Clinician educators (CEs) are challenged to produce meaningful scholarship while balancing various clinical and administrative roles. The increasing availability of technology provides new opportunities for scholarly output and dissemination. This article proposes three strategies for utilizing technology to enhance scholarly output for the busy CE. The strategies are supported by real examples of these techniques, followed by a discussion of potential limitations and future directions.

Getting Published in Medical Education: Overcoming Barriers to Scholarly Production

“…Education researchers should also consider maximizing the return on a given project by considering additional opportunities for expansion of a given project. 17 Often, it requires little additional effort to convert one project into several deliverables, such as an abstract, manuscript, presentation, and digital description of the innovation. Tables 1 and 2 provide a list of potential arenas for publication, as well as examples of different formats.…”

Curated Collections for Educators: Five Key Papers on Evaluating Digital Scholarship

“…This can open up a discussion around the methodology used by the authors to generate ‘validity evidence’ for a particular scoring system, which can be a nice way to compare and contrast with known diagnostic test validation methods. Moreover, it is an example of how you can generate multiple wins from a single educational innovation [ 20 ]. Notably, this group has authored a paper describing their innovation [ 28 ] and subsequently analyzed the data they acquired whilst running their innovation processes to generate validity evidence around the scoring system they created.…”

“…This may be a valuable resource to ensure that one’s efforts meet the criteria for scholarship in order to properly categorize and support projects when applying for promotion and tenure. It is equally important to ensure that faculty understand what does not constitute scholarship, so as to realign one’s efforts with a project that meets the criteria and may maximize their efforts [ 20 ].…”

“…Honorable Mention: Gottlieb M, Chan TM, Sherbino J, Yarris L. Multiple Wins: Embracing Technology to Increase Efficiency and Maximize Efforts. AEM Education and Training [ 20 ].…”

Finding Your People in the Digital Age: Virtual Communities of Practice to Promote Education Scholarship

“…9,10 Virtual CoPs can also expand one's resources for collaboration independent of geography or time zones. 11,12 This can facilitate study site recruitment and administration of multisite studies, which can produce robust scholarship. 13 Furthermore, vCoPs can create opportunities for shared learning.…”