The STFM New Faculty Scholars Scholarship Webinar series was developed as part of the STFM Foundation New Faculty Scholars Program, which develops leadership and scholarship skills in a cohort of early career faculty. The webinars were originally presented directly to the 2020-2021 New Faculty Scholars, but the entire series is now available to the STFM membership for free.
Nancy Pandhi, MD, MPH, PhD, as part of the Scholarly Coaching arm of the New Faculty Scholars, along with Suzanne Minor, MD, FAAFP, Foundation Trustee, developed and coordinated the webinar series to be relevant and inclusive across academic or community family practice settings and applicable regardless of prior experience with scholarship.
Faculty leaders across the country generously provided the webinar content on the potential for and practical aspects of scholarship in an academic family medicine career. Click on the tabs below to view webinar recordings and resources.
September 17, 2020 | Presenter: John Frey, III, MD
In this webinar, John Frey, III, MD, offers guidance for early and mid-career faculty on how to align their scholarly work with their academic career and unique interests and skills.
Content covered in the session includes:
How the type of institution determines the type of training
How to build a career anchor
Determinants of an academic career
Turning your Presentation into a Publication
October 9, 2020 | Presenter: Suzanne Minor, MD, FAAFP
Suzanne Minor, MD, FAAFP, talks about how to turn a presentation into a publication through understanding the types of scholarship, noting the required elements of submission, and organizing submission for the correct journal.
Objectives for the session :
Recognize that using a scholarly approach will build a foundation for transforming work into presentations and publication
Recognize that Glassick's Criteria can be used to assess scholarship and is a framework for creating one's own scholarship
Create a SMART plan for your next step in working on your own scholarship
Publishing with Efficiency
February 18, 2021 | Presenter: Nancy Pandhi, MD, MPH, PhD
Nancy Pandhi, MD, MPH, PhD, gives detailed advice on the academic writing process, including choosing a journal target, structuring your writing team and process, and finalizing the manuscript for submission and revisions.
Thinking About Publication: Advice from Family Medicine Journal Editors
December 2, 2020 | Presenters: Christopher P. Morley, PhD, MA, CAS & John Saultz, MD
PRiMER and Family Medicine journal editors Christopher P. Morley, PhD, MA, CAS & John Saultz, MD, give advice on how to prepare for publication. They cover practical tips on how to think about the purpose of your manuscript, identify the appropriate journal, understand journal guidelines, respond to a reviewer, publication timelines, and more.
Combining Scholarship and Advocacy
November 12, 2020 | Presenter: Tanya Anim-Fowler, MD, FAAFP
Tanya Anim-Fowler, MD, FAAFP, describes how local and national advocacy work can be turned into scholarly work. Areas such as population medicine, social determinants of health, systemic racism and more can all be developed into presentations or publications, in part through collaboration with professional associations.
Objectives for this session are that learners will be able to:
Cite the ACGME requires for faculty scholarly activity
List their passions which they can turn into ideas for scholarly work
Develop a plan to pursue their advocacy work
Prepare manuscripts, posters, or other publications to publicize their advocacy work
Bringing Scholarship to Quality Improvement and Clinical Innovation Efforts
January 21, 2021 | Presenter: Sally Kraft, MD, MPH
Sally Kraft, MD, MPH, delineates key differences between traditional research and quality improvement efforts while explaining how to produce scholarly work from your quality improvement. Excellent quality improvement empowers action while fixing and improving something in the real world.
Leading Change
March 18, 2021 | Presenter: Richard Roberts, MD, JD, FAAFP, FCLM
Richard Roberts, MD, JD, FAAFP, FCLM, describes the challenges of research in terms of strategy and influence. He covers the types of leaders and decision-making styles and describes the key aspects of transformational leadership.
