Purpose To (1) provide a detailed account of the nature and scope of faculty development
(FD) programs in medical education,(2) assess the quality of FD studies, and (3) identify in …

Objectives Narrative medicine (NM) incorporates stories into health sciences paradigms as
fundamental aspects of the human experience. The aim of this systematic review is to …

The term'medical educator'describes a number of roles, including that of teacher and
assessor, curriculum planner and evaluator, educational leader and manager, researcher …

Faculty members have numerous competing demands and struggle to find time to write.
Writing Accountability Groups (WAGs) were created to help faculty members establish …

Background/purpose: There is a growing desire for health professions educators to generate
high-quality education research; yet, few of them encounter the training to do so. In …

Purpose Medical educators are expected to produce educational scholarship, which can
lead to career advancement and promotion. Institutions have developed author …

Rationale and Objectives Publishing is critical for academic medicine career advancement.
Rejection of manuscripts can be demoralizing. Obstacles faced by clinical faculty may …

Background Writing for publication, in the nursing profession, is considered essential for the
development of the profession and individual career advancement. In education there is …

Objectives To investigate whether training in writing for scholarly publication, journal editing,
or manuscript peer review effectively improves educational outcomes related to the quality of …

Purpose We designed and implemented a pilot introductory narrative writing session with
the two-fold goal of fostering the dissemination of faculty writing for submission to peer …