The survey respondents praise the benefits of the peer group that has developed through the grant program. Past CSE Award recipients have formally and informally mentored award applicants and served on the Clinician Scholar Educator Advisory Panel, which was formed in 2008, mentoring current awardees.
“The CSE awardees can be seen to have formed a community of practice. … Communities of practice for medical educators can improve educational problem solving, target educational project development and increase the educational expertise of community members,” write the authors.
“This unique and highly successful endeavor may serve as a model for other medical societies,” conclude the authors. “The CSE Award created the nidus of a community of rheumatology scholar educators, whose role has extended from that of providing local, institutional expertise … to serving as a consulting resource at the national level for the ACR and its membership.”
For more on the CSE program and projects, read the full article.
Berman JR, O’Rourke KS, Kolasinski SL, et al. Rheumatology Research Foundation clinician scholar educator award: Fifteen years promoting rheumatology educators and education. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2016 Feb 11. doi: 10.1002/acr.22858. [Epub ahead of print]
