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01-06-2016 | Letter
Establishing a scholarly culture requires a conceptual framework for leveraging change
Author:
Jennifer Marie O’Brien
Published in:
Perspectives on Medical Education
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Issue 3/2016
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Excerpt
I read with great interest a recent article by Bourgeois et al., published in the October 2015 issue, discussing the creation of an active academic culture during residency [
1]. The authors argued for the establishment of effective strategies to promote scholarly pursuits during residency, in the hopes that this will grow academically oriented clinicians. I appreciated the authors’ description of an expanded definition of scholarship that goes beyond research, and their suggestions for disseminating scholarly works that transcend traditional expectations of publishing original research. …