AMEE 2022 Pre-Conference Workshop (PCW L15): Micro-Scholarship: An innovative approach to the Scholarship of being a Medical Educator

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Day: Sunday 28 August

Time: 0930-1230 CEST Venue: Lyon Congress Centre

Title: Micro-Scholarship: An innovative approach to the Scholarship of being a Medical Educator

Presenters: Poh-Sun Goh1, Sol Roberts-Lieb2, John Sandars3

1 National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore 2 University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Chicago, USA 3 Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK

https://www.instagram.com/p/ChVk061Plow/

Background: This AMEE Technology Enhanced Learning Committee’s workshop has a focus on Micro-Scholarship, which provides an innovative and proactive approach to the development and presentation of medical educator scholarship. The core feature is the small step-by-step processes to create, collect and collate, and share a wide variety of content. Specific content can be presented as evidence of scholarship and subjected to open peer review. An essential aspect of Micro-Scholarship is reflection and meta-reflection with active engagement in a community of practice. The use of technology, including blogs and social media, can greatly enhance all the activities associated with Micro-Scholarship. This workshop will provide participants with the theoretical background of Micro-Scholarship, the process and potential use of a wide variety of technologies for Micro-Scholarship, and an opportunity to actively plan how they can develop and present their own scholarship of being a medical educator. In addition, participants will develop their approach to meta-reflection and identify supportive communities of practice and mentors.

Who Should Participate: All who are interested in exploring Micro-Scholarship for medical educators

Structure Of Workshop: The workshop will be arranged in four parts with a brief introduction and small group activities.

Part I – What is Micro-Scholarship?

Part 2 – The choice of Technology

Part 3 – The challenges of Micro-Scholarship

Part 4 - Planning to implement Micro-Scholarship

Intended Outcomes:

By the end of the session, participants will:

Have an increased awareness of the process and outcomes of Micro-Scholarship

Critically choose technologies for Micro-Scholarship

Develop meta-reflection skills for Micro-Scholarship

Identify appropriate communities of practice and mentors for Micro-Scholarship

- 'finding' and 'engaging' your / an 'audience' and 'readership' - an iterative, and cumulative process

Workshop (Working/Adaptable/Adapted and Customised to Individual Needs and Requests of Participants in 'Live' Workshop Session - What Workshop Participants Want to Discuss, and Do) Timeline:

One possible path ...

Similar to my own, and many others 'struggles' with getting started with Scholarship, including 'Micro-Scholarship'

Start with brief introductions, including who, why and what - 1) who participants are (their context), 2) why there are attending, and 3) what each participant feels success for themselves would be, to take away from workshop

Then

Explore and ask what participants experience as 'Challenges' to engage with, and start journey as Scholar

Then

Facilitators will 'briefly' present our 'solution' - including 1) what is Micro-Scholarship, and 2) how to engage in Micro-Scholarship - including idea and practices (at this point discuss nuts and bolts) - not only how we do Micro-Scholarship, but what participants could do in their context

and

then get participants to do Micro-Scholarship

first as paper and pen exercise (or Flip Chart exercise)

then using simple note taking, and note sharing and conversation 'tech' solutions - my favourites are 1) email, 2) WhatsApp, and 3) Instagram or SlideShare for professional use; and Blogging/Blogger again for professional use

and then

finally, after several rounds of individual, and small group work, and presentation, discussion, Q and A

offer one

step by step path that we, as faculty/workshop facilitators use personally

for myself (Poh-Sun), I engage in 'open digital practice' and 'open digital scholarship' - for the last 10 years - progressively, cumulatively develop, and iteratively refine 'public' 'digital artefacts' and work through open presentation and digital scholarship - through blogs (present directly 'from' blogs, including SlideShare and Instagram - standalone or embedded within blogs)

Goh PS, Sandars J. (2019). Digital Scholarship – rethinking educational scholarship in the digital world, MedEdPublish, 8, [2], 15, https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2019.000085.1

Goh, P.S., Sandars, J. (2017). Insights from the culinary arts for medical educators. MedEdPublish. 6(1), Paper No:10. Epub 2017 Jan 18.

http://dx.doi.org/10.15694/mep.2017.000010

https://www.mededworld.org/AMEE-News/AMEE-Articles/MedEdPublish-Top-rated-papers-January-2017.aspx

https://www.mededworld.org/AMEE-News/AMEE-Articles/MedEdPublish-Top-rated-papers-July-2017.aspx

https://www.mededworld.org/AMEE-News/AMEE-Articles/MedEdPublish-Top-rated-papers-for-2017.aspx

Goh PS. (2016). Using a blog as an integrated eLearning tool and platform. Med Teach. 38(6):628-9. doi: 10.3109/0142159X.2015.1105947. Epub 2015 Nov 11. PMID: 26558420. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/0142159X.2015.1105947?journalCode=imte20

Specific Activities, How we are going to spend our time in the workshop, Key Messages, Conversations and Takeaways.

- opening introductions - facilitators and participants (see previous section)

- what is Micro-Scholarship - facilitators sharing, then participants pose questions, engage in open discussion with facilitators, followed by time for personal reflection - taking note(s) and making notes

group exercise - two groups - one group facilitated by John, the other group by Poh-Sun

choose one topic (by group), that 'all' in group are interested in, engage in online 'research' into topic - its key ideas, key words, definitions, key publications - what is widely read (will appear on first page(s) of online search on Google), what is widely cited, including reviews; and then examine key parts of these publications - specifically answering question what are components and pieces of 'Micro-Scholarship' within these publications? and How is this an accessible and assessable practice for workshop participants? To engage in Micro-Scholarship. Achieve Scholarship goals and outcomes. To walk the path of a Scholar. In a Community of Practice.

- examine tools and platforms - both analogue (e.g. meetings and conferences; journals) and digital (online), and networks - examine network theory

workshop participants both ask questions, engage in discussion, and then individual reflection and sharing of what they use, and why - to share ideas, get feedback, capture reflection - how they take note(s), make notes, and share notes - then progressively share and 'publish' these notes - as presentations (intradepartmental and then external meetings), and eventually submit for consideration as conference presentations, exhibits and 'posters', and journal publications (full spectrum - from letters to the editor, commentaries, reflection pieces, reviews, innovation reports, and 'research' and experimental reports)

- finally examine challenges and barriers to engaging in Micro-Scholarship, and Scholarship - e.g. finding time, making time, building routines and habitual practices, finding and engaging a Community of Practice (CoP), building confidence and conviction, creating and refining content - taking note, making notes and sharing notes, and making this practice public, publishing (with digital tools and on digital platforms and networks) and getting published

- end session with takeaways, and what participants found helpful and useful, and planning next steps (sharing and discussion), closing comments

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Faculty/Facilitator Sharing

Poh-Sun: I believe conversations about (the core ideas) and practices in this area converge on three key issues 1) professional identity - becoming and being 'an Educator', to answer the question of what and who 'is' an Educator; 2) engaging in Conversations with a Community of Practice, 3) adding to these conversations and 'finding your voice' as an Educator - through increasingly confident, and impactful contributions, including public demonstration and display of your (and your teams and collaborators) work through writing and publication of this work, which is not only 'peer reviewed', but also read by members of a Community of Practice, cited in ongoing conversations, and in further and future publications and writing by members of your professional Community of Practice (CoP).

You will, and we do, engage in topics, and activities that interest us, that we want to develop and deepen our expertise and insights in, through exposure, practice and engagement within a CoP. 'Researching' a topic involves 'reading' more about a field, a topic, a practice. Raising awareness or 'seeing'. Then engaging with ideas and practices. 'Doing' the work. Skilling up. Reflecting on the process and outcomes and getting training and feedback. Then, with increasing confidence, finding 'our voice' and publicly demonstrating and displaying our work. Including through presentation and writing. And through teaching and training others. See (one), Do (one), Teach (others), Reflect, Engage in Ongoing Conversations, Teach and Write (engage in Scholarship).

In a nutshell, becoming, being, and engaging a CoP. Through ongoing conversations, demonstrations and publications (writing). Taking small steps, then bigger strides. Micro-Scholarship is simply the small, increasingly significant and public steps taken on the journey of Scholarship (as public engagement, conversations, practice and writing).

With each iterative step - confidence in message(s) and content, quality of this content, and most importantly its (potential) value and impact, for an audience, and topic gets progressively refined and improved upon - https://microscholarship.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-process-of-micro-scholarship.html

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"Simply put, 'Micro-Scholarship' involves - Taking note, Making Notes, sharing these Notes, refining and building on these Notes through iterative conversations, feedback and personal reflection, then Assembling these Notes, into larger pieces of work. Of Scholarship." - Poh-Sun Goh, 17 August 2022, Wednesday, 0542am, Singapore Time

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https://microscholarship.blogspot.com/2022/02/micro-scholarship-summary.html

https://microscholarship.blogspot.com/2022/01/micro-scholarship-90-second-video.html (90 second elevator pitch)

https://microscholarship.blogspot.com/2022/07/origin-of-micro-scholarship-idea-and.html

Sol:

https://microscholarship.blogspot.com/2022/02/micro-scholarship-summary.html

https://microscholarship.blogspot.com/2022/01/micro-scholarship-90-second-video.html (90 second elevator pitch)

John:

https://microscholarship.blogspot.com/2022/01/micro-scholarship-90-second-video.html (90 second elevator pitch)

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https://padlet.com/dnrgohps/MicroScholarship

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Background and Further Reading:

https://microscholarship.blogspot.com/2022/07/origin-of-micro-scholarship-idea-and.html

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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)

Goh PS, Sandars J. (2016). An innovative approach to digitally flip the classroom by using an online "graffiti wall" with a blog. Med Teach. 38(8):858. doi: 10.1080/0142159X.2016.1204433. Epub 2016 Jul 14. PMID: 27414992. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0142159X.2016.1204433?journalCode=imte20

Goh P.S, Sandars J. (2020) 'Rethinking scholarship in medical education during the era of the COVID-19 pandemic', MedEdPublish, 9, [1], 97, https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2020.000097.1

* Sandars, J., Correia, R., Dankbaar, M., de Jong, P., Goh, P.S., Hege, I., Masters, K., Oh, S.Y., Patel, R., Premkumar, K., Webb, A., Pusic, M. (2020). 'Twelve tips for rapidly migrating to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic'. MedEdPublish, 9, [1], 82, https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2020.000082.1

* Goh P.S, Sandars J. (2020) 'A vision of the use of technology in medical education after the COVID-19 pandemic', MedEdPublish, 9, [1], 49, https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2020.000049.1

[* the latter 2 articles above, in MedEdPublish, have been each viewed over 25,000 times since publication, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, and have been cited in other publications over 180 and 300 times respectively - link to Google Scholar]

Public Websites

https://microscholarship.blogspot.com/ (published/first post on January 18, 2022) - over 6100 cumulative page views to date

https://telmeded.blogspot.com/ (published/first post on 18 September 2020) - over 9100 cumulative page views to date

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/ (published/first post on 19 September 2020) - over 12500 cumulative page views to date

https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/ (published/first post on 16 June 2012) - over 211,000 cumulative page views to date

https://www.slideshare.net/dnrgohps (first SlideShare on 10 January 2013 - 245 SlideShares to date - top SlideShare posts include - https://www.slideshare.net/dnrgohps/everything-i-have-learnt-about-elearning (with over 37,000 page views), and https://www.slideshare.net/dnrgohps/reflect-on-how-blooms-taxonomy-and-millers-pyramid-might-apply-to-learning-continuum-map (with over 26,000 page views)

https://www.instagram.com/gohpohsun/ - with 876 posts to date

https://linktr.ee/PohSunGoh

Earlier Presentations and Workshops

IAMSE Cafe on 'Technology in Health Sciences Education during COVID-19: Gains, Loses, and Transformations' - a follow up IAMSE Cafe Session conversation to 'focus session' at IAMSE 2021 on this topic - November 2021

Presentation to Group on Faculty Appointments (IAMSE) - ‘Introduction to Micro-Scholarship’ - January 2022 - https://www.slideshare.net/SolRobertsLieb1/introduction-to-microscholarship128, closing comments (1), https://www.slideshare.net/dnrgohps/microscholarship-how-to-start-going-public-how-does-it-add-up-benefits-of-open-practice

Presentation at Staff Track 2022 Conference; Southern Group on Educational Affairs (SGEA), AAMC - Pre-conference workshop - Micro-Scholarship: An Innovative Process for All to Engage in Health Professions Educational Scholarship - March 2022 - https://microscholarship.blogspot.com/2022/03/micro-scholarship-innovative-process.html

IAMSE 2022 pre-conference workshop on ‘Micro-Scholarship as the 'missing piece' in a successful Scholar's Journey’ - May 2022 - https://microscholarship.blogspot.com/2022/05/micro-scholarship-as-missing-piece-in.html

AMEE 2022 pre-conference workshop on ‘Micro-Scholarship: An innovative approach to the Scholarship of being a Medical Educator’ - August 2022 - https://microscholarship.blogspot.com/2022/08/amee-2022-pre-conference-workshop-pcw.html

Accepted for Publication / Published

Goh, PS, Roberts-Lieb, S, Sandars, J. Micro-Scholarship: an innovative approach for the first steps for Scholarship in Health Professions Education. (Medical Teacher, under review after submitting revision on 19 September 2022. Accepted for publication 5 October 2022. Published online 19 October 2022.)

Poh-Sun Goh, Sol Roberts-Lieb & John Sandars (2022) Micro-Scholarship: An innovative approach for the first steps for Scholarship in Health Professions Education, Medical Teacher, DOI: 10.1080/0142159X.2022.2133689

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2022.2133689

Goh, PS, Schlegel, E. Small, Sustainable, Steps to Success as a Scholar in Health Professions Education - Micro (Macro and Meta) Matters. (The Asia Pacific Scholar, submitted revision on 3 October 2022, accepted for publication 1 November 2022).

Under revision / review

Roberts-Lieb, S, Goh, PS, Sandars, J. Using Technology for Translating Micro-Scholarship to Practice. (Medical Science Educator - under revision)