If producing educational scholarship is on your to-do list, a structured opportunity with built-in accountability could be what you need to kick-start your effort and make it a reality.
Indiana University School of Medicine Research in Medical Education (RIME) faculty learning communities (FLCs) are small, peer-led groups of faculty members with similar research interests who engage in an active, collaborative, two-year program that is structured to provide encouragement, support and reflection.
Here's how they work:
- Faculty who are interested in producing scholarly work apply for the RIME FLC program by March 31, indicating their area of interest related to medical education research. Interest areas include:
- Artificial intelligence (AI)
- Assessment of clinical competence at the milestones
- Biomedical science education
- Health equity
- Interprofessional education
- Pre-clinical instruction
- Telehealth
- Wellness
- Faculty Affairs and Professional Development (FAPD), in partnership with the Office of Educational Affairs, forms an FLC focused on a common area of academic interest. Each FLC typically consists of four to six faculty members and is guided by an experienced mentor.
- Beginning in July, FLC members:
- Participate in education sessions on the fundamentals of medical education research
- Meet virtually as a group with their mentors to brainstorm scholarly project ideas, determine the scope and timeline of the selected project, conduct short writing sprints, check in on goals, run data analysis or complete other related tasks
- Work between meetings to advance the scholarly project
- Mentors will:
- Coordinate action items
- Facilitate conversations
- Provide information on institutional resources and the research process
- Serve as a liaison to group members
- By the end of the two-year program, each FLC will have produced a scholarly project, such as a peer-reviewed journal article, MedEd Portal submission and/or conference presentation.
Those who participate should expect to spend approximately four to seven hours a month on work related to the FLC.
Interested?
Learn more about RIME FLCs and apply by March 31 to join the 2025-2027 cohort.
Questions?
Contact fapdd@iu.edu.
