In The Pursuit of Scholarly Activities

ABSTRACT

Scholarly activities defined as those “suitable to learned persons,” as determined by the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, are considered the stones upon which the medical sciences building was created. Scholarly activities define the way that residents and faculties integrate their functions as they introduce, learn, assimilate, and discuss them daily on a way to improve their medical knowledge and active clinical practice. Since the unique publication of Boyer from The Carnegie Foundation, in 1990, scholarship was redefined and better understood. Scholarship then was highly considered and appreciated by the medical academic institutions involved in the teaching of residents and fellows in medicine and surgery. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Studies (ACGME) accepted the challenge posed by The Carnegie Foundation Report and introduced their own three scholarly activities of discovery, dissemination, and application. All of them oriented at advancing the care and treatment of medical and surgical patients. In this work, we explain the details of those scholarly activities and advance our experience at our own center.

Notes

¹ All activities can be further specified by the Residency Review Committee.

2 Represents all the elements included in publications only such as peer-reviewed publications, chapters in books, and book editorships. The rest are represented in scholarly activities as mentioned before and have been defined above.