Establishing a Sustainable Teaching Academy by Embedding an Educational Research Fellowship into a Community of Practice.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Teaching faculty is vital to the success of academic institutions. Academic biomedical faculty has faced greater workloads, and limited access to development opportunities. The Academy of Educational Scholars (AES) was designed as a community of practice with an embedded educational research fellowship to address the challenges of building and sustaining educational scholarship as recognized value for academic biomedical faculty careers.

Methods

An educational project-based, one-year faculty fellowship served to identify faculty motivated to join a community of practice. Fellowship curriculum development was guided by a literature review, internal needs' assessment, and the Kerns six-step framework. The program comprised ten 3-hour workshops and two project crit

SUBMITTER: Nelson EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12511696 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature