PURPOSE The purpose of our study was to determine the prevalence, focus, time commitment, graduation requirements and programme evaluation methods of medical education fellowships throughout the United States. Medical education fellowships are defined as a single cohort of medical teaching faculty who participate in an extended faculty development programme. METHODS A 26-item online questionn...

Definitions of interdisciplinarity often focus on the integration of disciplinary concepts or perspectives. Few definitions, however, are grounded in the work of faculty who conduct interdisciplinary scholarship. To better understand the practice of interdisciplinarity in research and teaching, and its implications for academics' professional lives, I interviewed college and university faculty ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the attributes that students and educators believe are important to being a good health educator in a non-clinical setting. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of first-year health science students and educators involved with a Health Science course in Melbourne, Australia was performed. A convenience sampling approach was implemented, with part...

Scholarly citations from one publication to another, expressed as reference lists within academic articles, are core elements of scholarly communication. Unfortunately, they usually can be accessed en masse only by paying significant subscription fees to commercial organizations, while those few services that do made them available for free impose strict limitations on their reuse. In this pape...

The objective of the OSCOSS research project on "Opening Scholarly Communication in the Social Sciences" is to build a coherent collaboration environment that facilitates scholarly communication workflows of social scientists in the roles of authors, reviewers, editors and readers. This paper presents the implementation of the core of this environment: the integration of the Fidus Writer academ...

S ENERAL 1). Professional Competence 1). 3 years or equivalent in rank 1). 3 years or equivalent in rank 2). Scholarly achievement 2). Serves department expectations 2). Serves department expectations 3). Attitude – Intellectual qualities 3). Developing (established) reputation by intramural (extramural) peer recognition 3). Emerging (established) national, (international) reputation 4). Sustai...