Three specific concept examples of what Micro-Scholarship is, what is looks like, what its practice is and can be. These inspired me at the beginning of my Micro-Scholarship journey and were light bulb moments. Poh-Sun Goh, 25 July 2022, Monday, 0903am Singapore Time (0633am Kochi Time, Kerala, India)
1. Modular reusable digital work, submitted to a peer reviewed repository - first encountered this idea with the HEAL digital assets library https://library.med.utah.edu/publishing/collection/health-education-assets-library-heal/ and idea of reusable digital objects - The idea of Ron Harden, when he and his team in Dundee were building an “International Virtual Medical School” (IVIMEDS) - https://europepmc.org/article/pmc/pmc1463971
Modular stackable bite size material for teaching and training is similar to pieces for Scholarship - Micro-Learning, Micro-Practice and Micro-Scholarship exist on a continuum - https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2022/06/micro-learning-micro-practice-and-micro.html
2. I realised that each 'Slide' on a Slide Deck - for a conference presentation - local or international, including a review of a topic or theme - 'is' not only a re-usable digital object, but is 'standalone' and 'stackable', 'and' has reached a threshold quality level through several iterations - of reflection, discussion, feedback, engagement and sharing within a (Community of Practice) CoP - that this Slide or piece of 'Micro-Scholarship' is ready for public delivery and display.
3. That a published journal paper, thesis, assignment is composed of these pieces of content that have been progressively made public and presented for critique and feedback.
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Specific 'Examples' of Micro-Scholarship and showing how they eventually stack up are on 2 blogs links below, from my practice -
https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2021/05/categories-of-scholarship-in-medical.html
(each category includes examples of Macro-Scholarship output and Micro-Scholarship examples)
https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2021/05/buildingblocksofscholarship-in.html
(see second half of this blog)
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One further example is invited IAMSE 2020 plenary keynote presentation blog, (where I presented directly from the blog), and the subsequent published Commentary in Medical Science Educator
https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2020/04/iamse-2020-plenary-presentation-medical.html
(each component and illustrative example - curated [with commentary, or contextualised within larger presentation and blog], selected from previous 'Micro-Scholarship' output, and created specifically for this presentation)
and
Goh, PS. Medical Educator Roles of the Future. Med.Sci.Educ. 30, 5–7 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-020-01086-w