TY - JOUR
T1 - Working definitions of the roles and an organizational structure in health professions education scholarship
T2 - Initiating an international conversation
AU - Varpio, Lara
AU - Gruppen, Larry
AU - Hu, Wendy
AU - O'Brien, Bridget
AU - Ten Cate, Olle
AU - Humphrey-Murto, Susan
AU - Irby, David M.
AU - Van Der Vleuten, Cees
AU - Hamstra, Stanley J.
AU - Durning, Steven J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
PY - 2017/2/1
Y1 - 2017/2/1
N2 - Problem Health professions education scholarship (HPES) is an important and growing field of inquiry. Problematically, consistent use of terminology regarding the individual roles and organizational structures that are active in this field are lacking. This inconsistency impedes the transferability of current and future findings related to the roles and organizational structures of HPES. Approach Based on data collected during interviews with HPES leaders in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and the Netherlands, The authors constructed working definitions for some of the professional roles and an organizational structure that support HPES. All authors reviewed the definitions to ensure relevance across multiple countries. Outcomes The authors define and offer illustrative examples of three professional roles in HPES (clinician educator, HPES research scientist, and HPES administrative leader) and an organizational structure that can support HPES participation (HPES unit). These working definitions are foundational and not all-encompassing and, thus, are offered as stimulus for international dialogue and understanding. Next Steps With these working definitions, scholars and administrative leaders can examine HPES roles and organizational structures across and between national contexts to decide how lessons learned in other contexts can be applied to their local contexts. Although rigorously constructed, these definitions need to be vetted by the international HPES community. The authors argue that these definitions are sufficiently transferable to support such scholarly investigation and debate.
AB - Problem Health professions education scholarship (HPES) is an important and growing field of inquiry. Problematically, consistent use of terminology regarding the individual roles and organizational structures that are active in this field are lacking. This inconsistency impedes the transferability of current and future findings related to the roles and organizational structures of HPES. Approach Based on data collected during interviews with HPES leaders in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and the Netherlands, The authors constructed working definitions for some of the professional roles and an organizational structure that support HPES. All authors reviewed the definitions to ensure relevance across multiple countries. Outcomes The authors define and offer illustrative examples of three professional roles in HPES (clinician educator, HPES research scientist, and HPES administrative leader) and an organizational structure that can support HPES participation (HPES unit). These working definitions are foundational and not all-encompassing and, thus, are offered as stimulus for international dialogue and understanding. Next Steps With these working definitions, scholars and administrative leaders can examine HPES roles and organizational structures across and between national contexts to decide how lessons learned in other contexts can be applied to their local contexts. Although rigorously constructed, these definitions need to be vetted by the international HPES community. The authors argue that these definitions are sufficiently transferable to support such scholarly investigation and debate.
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U2 - 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001367
DO - 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001367
M3 - Article
C2 - 27580432
AN - SCOPUS:84984707513
SN - 1040-2446
VL - 92
SP - 205
EP - 208
JO - Academic Medicine
JF - Academic Medicine
IS - 2
ER -