Medical Education Researcher
The Medical Education Research (MER) track is a two-year, intensive research experience where participants will: ideate, implement, and disseminate a medical education research project, incorporating character and caring as the foundation.
How Will the K3 Medical Education Researcher Experience Benefit You?
In addition to monthly in-person bootcamps targeting current, best practice in medical education, the Medical Education Researcher track offers:
- Individualized writing coaches and research mentors to support your scholarship from ideation to dissemination
- Opportunity to present scholarship at the Medical College of Wisconsin Innovations in Health Education Research Conference
- Kinetic3 Certificate of Completion with recognition shared with your department’s leadership
- A wide professional network of medical educators at the regional and national level
- Supplemental funding to present at a medical education conference to present one’s Kinetic3 scholarship
Schedule-at-a-Glance
- Alternating day-long (8 a.m.-5 p.m.) boot camps <<will meet Fridays, specific months>> and one-hour writing circles (10 a.m.-12p.m.) <<will meet Fridays, specific months>>
- Please expect to allocate an additional 10 hours of work a month
- There is a required 80% attendance, and these are in person on the Milwaukee MCW campus. All bootcamp and writing circle dates will be provided 60-90 days in advance to accommodate clinical obligations
- The first MER session is the Kinetic3 Orientation, which is scheduled for July 2022.
Medical Education Researcher Track List of Sessions:
Orientation - July
Graduation - June
Graduation - June
Year 1 (July-June)
Year 2 (July-June)
Year 3 - (September)
What is a Writing Circle?
What is a Medical Education Researcher Writing Circle?
Scaffolding to encourage:
- Discussion between learners
- Critical reflection on self as a researcher
- Protected time to work on the Capstone
- Mentorship with experienced (K3) medical education researcher
- Own manuscript and scholarship after program
Read or view scholarship literature, other mediums>Work on a section of the Capstone worksheet>Engage in narrative reflection and discussion prompts