The deadline to apply for the 2022-2023 cohort of the Department of Internal Medicine Advancement of Clinician-Educator Scholarship (ACES) Faculty Development Program is January 14, 2022. ACES is a yearlong program in which junior faculty learn how to conduct educational scholarship and carry out a research project under the tutelage of program director Donna Windish, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine, as well as other faculty.
Educational scholarship is research on the subject of education—medical education, in this case. Most often, according to Windish, it involves developing a curriculum and evaluating how that curriculum influence trainees’ understanding of the material or, less directly, the health of patients under their care.
ACES participants devote one day per week to the program: half a day taking seminars in topics including statistics and survey design, library research, manuscript preparation, and applying for funding; half a day on the research project itself. Ideal candidates are junior faculty in the clinician-educator track within the Department of Internal Medicine. “The mission is to foster the career development of these clinician educators,” Windish said.