Holistic academic development: Is it time to think more broadly about the academic development project?

The Resident Academic Project Program: A Structured Approach to Inspiring Academic Development During Residency Training.

We report the successful implementation of structured resident academic projects in our Department of Anesthesiology at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Beginning with the graduating class of 2010, we adopted an expectation that each resident complete a project that results in a manuscript of publishable quality. Defining a clear timeline for all steps in the project and providing researc...

Is It Time to Do More Homework on the Impact of Childhood Obesity on Academic Achievement?

Industry Induces Academic Science to Know Less about More

Systematic Program Development Academic Staff

Project thinking, project practice: Experiences using rich pictures in a project of academic development

This paper describes a ‘methodological experiment’ whereby some elements of Soft Systems Methodology, in particular the concept of ‘rich pictures’, have been used to support academic development work. It provides some insights into how identifying stakeholders and involving them in a collective ‘rich picture drawing’ process can be beneficial to a project of academic development. The paper also...