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Scholarship of Academic Responsibilities December 2007 Issue 3

Inside this issue:

Letter from Editors 1

Faculty Welcome 1

Instant Messaging 1

Distance Learning Awards

2

IUPUI Immersion Conference

2

News Briefs 3

Publications Congratulations

5

Presentations Congratulations 6

Presentations Congratulations 7

Call for Proposals 4

What is Windows Messenger, and How Might It Work for You?

OED Welcomes Two New Faculty

Ellen Lavelle, Ph.D. is an educational psycholo-gist who works with UAMS faculty to conduct research on learning and teaching in health professions education. She also consults re-garding assessment and program evaluation. Her research interests

include learning and teaching strategies, writing, motivation and professionalism. Her personal interests include the visual and performing arts.

Beatrice Boateng, Ph.D. works with faculty pri-marily in the area of instructional development. Her Ph.D. is in cur-riculum instruction and instruc-tional technology. Her research interests include the application of mixed method approach, qualita-tive research, self directed learn-

ing and team based learning.

Instant Messaging (IM) can be faster, easier, and more efficient than e-mail or telephone for some of the communications that you need to have with co-workers. It enables you to chat, in “real time,” share documents, and share ideas via white-boarding. You may have seen the recent campus wide e-mail which noted that Windows Messenger is UAMS’ preferred IM application and is integrated with Outlook and Sharepoint.

Here are a couple of links from that announce-ment to help you get set-up:

Windows Messenger setup instructions - Windows Messenger add contact instructions -

Welcome to the latest issue of the SOAR newslet-ter. This internal newsletter has been created to share news, resources, and accolades among SOAR members and scholars around UAMS. This newsletter includes a brief highlight of some of the achievements that SOAR members have been involved in over the better part of this year. It is so encouraging to see the range and volume of achievements in educational scholar-ship by UAMS faculty. Educational scholarship is a topic receiving much attention in these changing times. You may be aware of the recently published article, by Simpson et al, resulting from a consensus conference and major efforts to redefine the assessment of educa-tional scholarship (1). It offers an interesting new perspective on what “counts” as a scholarship, for educators. Other literature indicates that internal networking within one’s own institution as well as across the broader field nationally, is an important compo-nent of scholarly productivity (2).

To provide a forum for internal networking at UAMS, a SOAR distribution list has been cre-ated on the UAMS Global email address for your convenience in sharing ideas and schol-arly insight with one another. Please feel free to use this distribution list to collaborate, ask for ideas and feedback, and further your pur-suit of scholarly activities. The address is SOAR@uams.edu Happy Holidays to everyone, and best wishes for a safe and rewarding new year!

Sincerely,

Carol Thrush & Elizabeth Hicks

__________________ 1. Simpson, Fincher, Hafler, Irby, et al. (2007). Advancing educators and education by defining the components and evidence associated with educational scholarship. Medical Education, 41(10):1002.

2. Bland. (2006). A theoretical, practical, predictive model of faculty and department research productivity. Academic Medicine, 80(3):225.

Letter from the Editors

The Arkansas Distance Learning Asso-ciation Awards ceremony was held Sep-tember 25, 2007 at the Clarion Resort on the Lake in Hot Springs, AR. “It was quite impressive to see UAMS so well-represented within the state,” said Robin Smith of OED. Dr. Grazyna Nowak won the award for Outstanding Online or Blended Course for her Biological and Cellular Chemis-try Course in the College of Pharmacy. Other award recipients are displayed on this page (left).

Initial Inductees, Bob Donaldson and Velda Holmes

Outstanding Distance Educa-tion Program recipient, Nicki L. Hilliard, UAMS College of Pharmacy, for Nuclear Educa-tion Online

Outstanding Video-based Course: Two-Way, awarded to Terry J. DuBose, Program Director of Diagnostic Medi-cal Sonography, UAMS Col-lege of Health Related Profes-sions

Five UAMS faculty attended the Indiana Uni-versity Relationship-Centered Care Institute’s Immersion Conference, May 21-25, 2007, funded in part by a competitive grant awarded to the team and from the generous support from Dr. Debra Fiser, UAMS COM Dean. The UAMS team was one of 12 universities invited to attend the con-ference at Indiana University-Purdue University Indian-apolis (IUPUI). Led by Thomas Inui, Richard Frankel, and other core leaders, the IUPUI campus has been immersed in 6 years of intensive efforts to enhance the culture for professionalism at their medical school. Participating schools in the 2007 conference included: Arkansas, Columbia, East Carolina-Brody, Louisville, Minnesota, Nebraska,

NEOUCOM, and Wisconsin. Returning alumni from Baylor, Dartmouth, Drexel, Missouri-Columbia, and North Dakota, were also in attendance.

UAMS faculty mem-bers in attendance (pictured, left to right) include Carol Thrush, Michael Edwards, Jeannette Shorey, John Spollen, and Sara Tariq. Borrowing from colleagues at Louis-ville, this team has adopted the name RIPPLE (Relationships in Positive Professional Learning Environ-ments) to identify ini-

tiatives to be developed at UAMS resulting from lessons learned at IUPUI. Stay tuned for more to come from this group!

UAMS Faculty Attend Relationship-Centered Care Immersion Conference

Thomas Inui, Indiana Univer-sity at Purdue, and Jeannette Shorey, UAMS, at the Rela-tionship Centered Care Im-mersion Workshop, May 2007

Arkansas Distance Learning Association Awards

Above: Outstanding Technical Support and Service: Higher Ed Category, awarded to Paul Francis, UAMS College of

• New educational research resources have been added to the OED website. Please check them out for assistance with your scholarly activities.

• Visiting scholars from all over the nation come to UAMS to discuss their educational research and their areas of expertise. You can watch the lec-tures on the web at http://rhp.uams.edu/teachingscholars/ .

• The 2007-2008 Teaching Scholars program is being held in Texarkana , for the faculty at the Area Health Edu-cation Center (AHEC) to benefit from the valuable lessons shared by the visiting scholars. For more informa-tion about the Teaching Scholars program, click here.

• Diane Heestand, the Director of the Office of Educational Development, is serving as the Interim Associate Dean of the College of Health-Related Pro-fessions during the 2007-2008 aca-demic year.

• March 11, 2008 is an important day at UAMS for leaders and others who are involved in Graduate Medical Education...why? This is the day scheduled for the institutional site visit by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, an event that happens approximately every 5 years.

News Briefs

Issue 3

A favorite quote from the

SGEA keynote speech

delivered by Stanley

Harris, Auburn U.

“People don’t

resist changing,

they resist being

changed.”

-Peter Senge, 1990

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Above: UAMS faculty attendees at the SGEA conference, in Louisville, KY at the famed Brown Hotel.

Below Left: Anna Moses presents the outcomes of the OED Teaching Scholars Program at the AERA annual meeting in Chicago, IL.

Below Right: Franklin Medio presents at UAMS Teaching Scholars on the topic of Professionalism

News Briefs

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Kelly R, & Smith RM. Subdivided courses help students learn in small increments. Online Class-room, 2007, 3-5.

Kirchner JE, Rule C, Kramer TL, Bennett LA, Otwell S. Blending education, research, and service missions: the Arkansas model. Academic Medicine. 2007;82(1):107-12.

Atkinson TN, Gilleland DS, Pear-son, LC. The Research Environ-ment Norm Inventory (RENI): A study of integrity in research administrative systems. Ac-countability in Research, 2007; 14(2), 93-119.

Thrush CR, Vander Putten J, Rapp CG, Pearson LC, Berry KS, O’Sullivan PS. Content validation of the Organizational Climate for Research Integrity (OCRI) survey. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 2007;2(4), 35-52. Atkinson TN, Gilleland DS. Virtue blindness and hegemony: Quali-tative evidence of negotiated ethical frameworks in the social language of university research administration. Science and Engineering Ethics, 2007; 13(2), 195-220. Bittengle JR, Olejniczak SR, Pedigo WM. Arkansas AHECs: Supplying the state with ra-diologic imaging sciences pro-fessionals. National AHEC Or-ganization Bulletin.

Sisterhen L, Blaszak R, Woods MB, Smith C. Defining family-centered rounds. Teaching & Learning in Medicine 2007;19:319-22.

Erwin DO, Johnson VA, Trevino M, Duke K, Feliciano L, Jandorf L. A comparison of African American and Latina social

networks as indicators for cul-turally tailoring a breast and cervical cancer education inter-vention. Cancer 2007;109(2 Suppl): 368-77.

Atkinson TN, Gilleland DS, Bar-rett TG. The dimensions of influ-ence on research administrator behavior: toward a theoretical model of research administra-tion as a public service profes-sion. Journal of Research Ad-ministration, 2007; 38(1), 19-30. Atkinson TN. Expressions of market discourse in higher edu-cation news media: Issues of conjuncture and intertextuality. International Journal of Applied Semiotics, 5(1-2), 163-183. Thrush CR, Hicks EK, Tariq SG, Johnson AM, Clardy JA, O’Sullivan PS, Williams DK.. Optimal learning environments from the perspective of resident physicians and associations with accreditation length. Aca-demic Medicine, 2007;82 (10 Suppl): S121-S125.

Gathright MM, Thrush CR, Jarvis RR, Hicks EK, Cargile CS, Clardy JA, O’Sullivan PS. Identifying areas for curricular program improvement based on faculty

and resident perceptions of skills and general competencies and resident performance. Aca-demic Psychiatry, in press.

Newton BW, Barber L, Clardy JC, Cleveland E, O’Sullivan PS. Is there hardening of the heart during medical school? Aca-demic Medicine, in press.

Atkinson, TN. Textual mapping of the imitation and intertextual-ity in college and university mis-sion statements. Semiotica, in press. Atkinson TN. Imitation, intertex-tuality and hyperreality in U.S. higher education discourse practices. Semiotica, in press. Atkinson, T. Using creative writ-ing techniques to enhance the case study method in research integrity and ethics courses. Journal of Academic Ethics, in press.

Burns RE, Garrett JE, & Childs GV. A study of student perform-ance on self-scheduled, com-puter-based in a medical histol-ogy course: Is later better? Medical Teacher, in press.

Tariq SG, Johnson A, Thrush CR, Woods MB, Johnson V, Clardy JA. Pop quizzes: Evidence based strategy for medical stu-dents? Journal of the Interna-tional Association of Medical Science Educators, in press.

Educational Research Publications - Congratulations!Congratulations!

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Jim Clardy, Associate Dean for GME at UAMS, Franklin Medio, Associate Dean for GME at UMSC (former), and Bruce Newton, Associate Dean for UME at UAMS, following 2007 Teaching Scholars Lecture.

Right: UAMS attendees at the AAMC 2007 conference. Front row: Glenda Cooper, Sara Tariq, James Clardy. Second row: Jeannette Shorey, Lea Mabry, Carol Thrush. Third row: Beatrice Boateng, Anna Moses, Debra Fiser, Richard Wheeler. Back row: Bruce Newton, John Spollen, James Pasley, Billy Thomas.

Garrett J, Gardner SF, Born CK, and Alman M. Assessing students’ metacognitive skills. Am Journal of Phar-maceutical Education. 2007;71(1):14.

Davis RL, Wiggins MN, Mercado CC, O’Sullivan PO. Defining the core compe-tency of professionalism based on the patient’s per-ception. Clinical and Experi-mental Ophthalmology. 2007; 35(1):51-4.

Prajapati SH, Kahn RF, Stecker T, Pulley L. Curricu-lum planning: a needs as-sessment for complementary and alternative medicine education in residency. Fam-ily Medicine. 2007;39(3):190-4.

Boateng BA & Boateng K. (2007). Issues to consider when choosing open source content management sys-tem. Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives (eds K.St. Amant and B. Still). Idea Group Inc.: Hershey, PA.

Moses AS, Heestand DE, Doyle LL, & O’Sullivan PS. (paper presentation) Developing an educator network: The effect of a Teaching Scholars Program in the health professions. Annual Meeting of the American Educa-tional Research Association, Chicago, IL, April 9-13, 2007. Mabry LA. Changing the over-sight system to improve gradu-ate medical education (demonstration session). Southern Group on Educational Affairs, Louisville, KY, April 19-21, 2007. Means K, Petty M. Improving residency education by chang-ing the learning environment through team-based learning (oral presentation). Southern Group on Educational Affairs, Louisville, KY, April 19-21, 2007. Fath SJ, Moses AM, Nelson B, Thompson B. (2007). Educa-tional technology-friend or foe? (small group discussion). South-ern Group on Educational Af-fairs, Louisville, KY, April 19-21, 2007.

Thrush CR, Guise JB, Clardy JA. (small group discussion). Pro-moting and Sustaining GME Research: Perspectives from a DIO, program director, and medical educator. AAMC South-ern Group on Educational Af-fairs Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY, April 21, 2007.

Thrush CR, Guise JB, Clardy JA. (oral presentation). A team ap-proach to GME research: The DIO, program director, and medical educator. Southern Medical Association Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY, April 19, 2007. Deneke M, Choksi P, Woods MB, Clardy JA, Simmons DL. Patient-centeredness of ICM-I small group sessions (poster presentation). Southern Group on Educational Affairs, Louis-ville, KY, April 19-21, 2007.

Fussell J, Farrar H, Sisterhen L. Teaching the ACGME Core Com-petencies in a Morbidity and Mortality Review Conference (poster presentation). Associa-tion of Pediatric Program Direc-

tors Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, May 3-5 2007. Means KM, Andrews-Collins N, Petty ME. Changing the learning environment in residency educa-tion (workshop). 6th Annual Team-based Learning Confer-ence, Vancouver, BC, May 31- June 1, 2007. Pasley J, Petty M, Jennings M, Soulsby M, Firnhaber J, Palacios M, White J. Enhancing a sim-man experience in cardiovascular and respiratory physiology for first year medical students through the implementation of team-based learning (discipline-based discussion). 6th Annual Team-based Learning Conference, Vancouver, BC, May 31- June 1, 2007.

Spollen J. Behavior change counseling training for medical students: An example of random-ized controlled trials in education (presentation). 2007 Annual Association of Directors of Medi-cal Student Education in Psychia-try Meeting, Park City, UT, June 21-23, 2007.

Educational Research Presentations - Congratulations!

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Lea Mabry of OED pre-senting at SGEA on edu-cational technologies used for GME oversight

Anna Moses of OED and colleagues at the 2007 AERA meeting, participat-ing on a panel.

Above: James Clardy, Chris Smith (both of UAMS College of Medicine), and Darshana Shah (Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine) catch up on business after the SGEA- sponsored tour of Churchill Downs.

Association of Schools of Allied Health Pro-fessionals Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, October 17-20, 2007.

Boateng BA, Mabry L, Moses A. Not an-other boring lecture: Creatively using PowerPoint in medical education (skill ac-quisition session). The Generalists in Medi-cal Education Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 2-3, 2007.

Stoddard H, O’Dell D, Thrush CR. Would Socrates use the ‘Socratic Method’ for clinical instruction? A technique for improv-ing bedside and small group teaching (skills acquisition session). The Generalists in Medical Education, Washington, DC, Nov. 3, 2007.

Boateng BA, Moses A, Mabry L. Millennials and GenXers in the health professions: Are we meeting their educational technology expectations in the classroom? (lunch discussion group). The Generalists in Medi-cal Education Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 2-3, 2007.

Thrush CR, Hicks EK, Tariq SG, Johnson AM, Clardy JA, O’Sullivan PS, Williams DK. (oral presentation). Optimal learning envi-

Landes RD. Passing on the passion: re-cruiting students of statistics. 2007 Pro-ceedings of the Section on Statistical Education, American Statistical Associa-tion Conference: Joint Statistical Meet-ings, Salt Lake City, July 29 – August 2, 2007. Bittengle JR, Pedigo WM, Olejniczak SR, DuBosE TJ, Pickett MW. Arkansas AHECs: Providing the state with medical imaging professionals (poster presenta-tion). The Association of Schools of Al-lied Health Professions, Annual Confer-ence, Oct. 17-20, 2007, San Diego.

Heestand DE, Onoka C, & Ofoegbu E. (poster). Community-based Education in Nigerian Medical Schools: Students’ Perspectives. The 2007 Network: TUFH Conference: Human Resources for Health: Recruitment, Education and Re-tention International Conference, Kam-pala, Uganda, September 15-20, 2007.

Haas B, Butler B, Agan N, Jackson S, Levitch L, Thrush CR. Use of an inter-professional workgroup model to pro-mote evidence-based education in ge-netics counseling. (oral presentation).

ronments from the perspective of resi-dent physicians and associations with accreditation length. AAMC 46th An-nual Group on Educational Affairs Con-ference on Research in Medical Educa-tion (RIME), Washington, DC, November 2-7, 2007.

Zraick R, Klaben B, Connor N, Thiebault S, Kempster G, Glaze L, Thrush CR, Bursac Z. Results of the CAPE-V Valida-tion Study. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) 2007 Annual Meeting, Boston, Massa-chusetts, November, 15-17, 2007.

Keep us posted on your news and activities, photos, etc., for the next

issue of the SOAR newsletter:

ehicks@uams.edu

or

thrushcarolr@uams.edu

Presentations Continued….

Left: Participants brainstorm during a workshop on Socratic teaching methods at The Generalists in Medical Educa-tion conference given by Hugh Stoddard, David O’Dell (both of University of Nebraska College of Medicine) and Carol Thrush (OED).

Below: Mike Petty (formerly of OED) and Sara Tariq (UAMS College of Medicine) role-playing at The Generalists 2007 conference.

Left: Anna Moses, Lea Mabry, and Beatrice Boateng of OED at the Generalists in Medical Education Conference,

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