Education Scholarship in Healthcare - The Health Scholar's Toolbox

Academic medical centers continue to require evidence of scholarly activity for their faculty to maintain their appointment and to advance in promotion/rank.  For some, training to know how to obtain evidence of scholarship was obtained through fellowship where information was passed from mentor to mentee in an apprenticeship fashion without a formalized text to follow to obtain the information.  In fellowship, information might flow through word-of-mouth or articles handed down out to a mentee.  Others in fellowship develop skills by taking classes as part of an additional master's degree program such as a Master of Public Health.
For health professionals who enter an academic institution without having gone through a fellowship program, they are still expected to perform scholarly activity but don't have the benefit of having done the apprenticeship to learn the skills, so unless they decide to find a course, obtain a master's degree, or find a fellowship, they have no way to gain the necessary skills and are at risk of losing their appointment and have no hope of progressing in promotion.
This text provides a comprehensive toolbox for the academic who needs these skills to survive.  It serves as a valuable resource for health professionals - physicians, nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists, and allied professionals - as well as scientists, and students, with the steps necessary to take their educational endeavors from idea to implementation through dissemination. Beginning with the concept of 'What is Scholarship', the authors walk the reader through the concepts of how to find your niche, look through the literature to check for a gap, design a question, consider evaluation and outcomes, be aware of ethical considerations, plan a project, look for support, find mentorship, prepare an abstract, present a poster, disseminate a project, and lead a team. All chapters are written by experts in the subject matter.   


April S Fitzgerald, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Education
2800 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218


 
Gundula Bosch, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University School of Education
615 N Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21287


Dr. April Fitzgerald is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (JHSOM), adjunct appointment at the JHU School of Education (JHUSOE), and an adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS).  Dr Fitzgerald attended the United States Air Force Academy where she received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.  She attended medical school at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine where she received her M.D. degree in 1996.  She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.  Dr. Fitzgerald practiced medicine in Boston before she was called to active duty to serve at the Pentagon after the terrorist attacks of 2001 and served on faculty at the USUHS.  She continued in the USAF Reserves at the rank of Colonel until June 2017, retiring after 30 years of service.  Dr. Fitzgerald has been faculty at JHUSOM since 2007 and received her Master of Education in 2016 from the JHUSOE.  She is board certified in Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.  She teaches at JHUSOM, JHUSOE, and USUHS.

Dr. Gundula Bosch is a Research Professor and the Director of the R³ Center for Innovation in Science Education (R³ISE) at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health (JHSPH) with an adjunct appointment at the JHU School of Education (JHUSOE). Dr. Bosch received her Master of Science from the Technical University of Munich, her PhD in Biology from Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry, and her Master of Education from the Johns Hopkins University School of Education.  Her interests focus on the development, oversight, and evaluation of science and health education programs. Dr. Bosch leads the R³ Graduate Science Programs that stand for 'the three R's' of good scientific practice: Rigorous research conduct, Reproducibility of scientific findings, and social Responsibility of scientists to society. R³ISE's mission is to bring more critical thinking, interdisciplinary collaboration, and practical ethics considerations into graduate student training in biomedicine, health, engineering, and technology.