Creative Capstone Dissemination Opportunities

• In Event: Varieties of Master of Education in the Health Profession Capstone Experience: Standards and Creativity

Abstract

Objective/ Purpose: To provide opportunities for publications and dissemination of capstone projects as works of scholarship.
Perspective/Theoretical Frameworks:
This session will explore opportunities for capstone project to help advance the field of health professions education, beyond the students’ local institutions, through opportunities for scholarship. The Boyer model of scholarship will be used to frame this presentation. (Boyer 1990). The Boyer model of scholarship expands the work of professors beyond the historical activities of traditional research, described by Boyer as the scholarship of discovery, to other forms of scholarly work. Boyer’s model also recognized scholarship of integration and application as well as the scholarship of teaching.
The scholarship of teaching, has been distinguished from scholarly teaching, to requiring the work be made public, available for peer review, and able to be reproduced and further developed by other scholars. (Glassick 2000)
Methods/Techniques/Mode of Inquiry:
MEHP students are often professions already engaged in instruction, curriculum development and program leadership. As such, they are typically using their own context for a source of capstone projects. Students often develop new educational programs, curriculum, and instructional approaches framed around contemporary conceptual frameworks in HPE. These initiatives often involve integration and application of innovations in education as collaborations across programs, professions and organizations. As such their capstones project may advance the field of HPE through scholarly dissemination.
Results/conclusions:
Forums for scholarly dissemination (including with opportunities for peer review and adoption and further advancement) will be discussed.
Significance:
MEHP programs provide opportunities for both develop individual professions in health professions education to enhance students’ own teaching and educational work, and also to impact the broader HPE community through capstone projects that result in works of scholarship.

Author

• Maura Polansky, University of Illinois at Chicago