Community of Medical Education Scholars (CoMES)
The purpose of CoMES is to introduce medical school faculty to the basics of educational scholarship with an emphasis on active, hands-on learning and engagement with others who have similar scholarly interests. At the end of the program, participants will have completed a draft IRB protocol.
CoMES sessions are held monthly from September through February; each class is 90 minutes long and meets virtually. Applications for the next cohort will open in July 2022.
Program Objectives
- Determine a medical education teaching activity area and develop a narrowly focused research question
- 演示的能力进行一个基本的文学ure search with a focus on the educational literature
- Examine examples of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods studies as presented in the medical education literature
- Recognize the role of the IRB in governing ethical research practices
- Outline a research design for investigating the research question
- Determine appropriate methods for data collection and data analysis
Session Topics
- Intro to scholarship of teaching and learning; writing a research question
- IRB; conducting a literature review; conceptual frameworks
- Research design- qualitative, quantitative, mixed; characteristics of successful projects
- Evaluating a research article; basics of survey design
- Data collection; scholarship as part of P&T
- Data analysis; growth as a scholar
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