Mentor Application
Deadline to Apply: February 15, 2025
The APPD Supporting Medical Education Research Fellow Scholars (SMERFS) is a program that provides pediatric subspecialty fellows with support to conduct a medical education research project. This program assists fellows in project development, collection of data, data analysis, presentation of the project and publication. The goal is for this medical education research project to meet the American Board of Pediatrics’ Fellowship Scholarly Work requirement.
Goal: To provide mentoring and support for medical education research for pediatric subspecialty fellows.
Objectives: By the end of the APPD SMERFS Program, fellows will:
- Describe foundational concepts in medical education research
- Develop a mentoring relationship with a medical education research expert
- Design and carry out a medical educational scholarly project with assistance of a mentor
- Present their medical education research at the APPD Spring Meeting during their last year in the program
- Draft a medical education research manuscript in preparation for publication
Mentors are expected to:
- Meet virtually with their mentees on a monthly basis
- Discuss the mentee’s interests and goals
- Provide guidance for a medical education research study, including
- Study design and methodology
- IRB submission and consent process
- Analysis plan
- Abstract submission
- Manuscript writing and publication
- Establish timelines and deadlines with their mentee such that their project is completed by the end of fellowship and can be submitted to the ABP for Board eligibility
- Support the mentee at:
- SMERFS session at the APPD 2025 Fall Meeting for the first year of the program (required)
- APPD 2026 Spring Meeting for the second year of the program (optional but highly encouraged)
- Provide support/expertise for mentee’s SOC
Travel Support
Travel support for attending the SMERFS session at the APPD Fall Meeting will be provided (up to $950 per mentor).
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