Framework to Guide Health Professions Faculty Towards Increased Scholarship Recommendations from the ASAHP Research, Discovery & Innovation Committee

David A. Brown, Fevzi Akinci, Susan Gordon-Hickey, Fang Ling Lu, Abiodun Akinwuntan

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    Abstract

    The Research, Discovery, and Innovation Publications (RDI-P) Task Force met from October 2020 to March 2022 to discuss ways in which the Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP) can help to guide institutional leaders to assign faculty effort and resources to enable success with the scholarship mission. The purpose of this White Paper is to propose a guiding framework for institutional leaders to determine their faculty’s individual or team scholarly goals, assign appropriate percent efforts (funded/unfunded), and guide an overall faculty mix that balances required teaching loads with scholarly activities. The Task Force identified seven modifiable factors that can influence workload allocation for scholarship: 1. Limited range of the spectrum for effort distribution; 2. Matching expectations with reality; 3. Clinical training undervalued as adequate prep for translational or implementation research; 4. Limited support for mentorship availability; 5. Richer collaborations needed; 6. Finding resources and matching them to individual faculty needs; and 7. Further time for training needed. We then provide a set of recommendations to address the seven issues described. Finally, we describe four foci of scholarly activity (evidence-based educator; evidence-based clinical application; evidence-based collaborator; and evidence-based principal leader) with which a leader can develop strategies to align faculty interests and growth opportunities towards advancing scholarship.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Pages (from-to)3-8
    Number of pages6
    JournalJournal of allied health
    Volume52
    Issue number1
    StatePublished - 2023

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Medicine

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