The Collaborative Scholarship Intensive: A Research-Intensive Course to Improve Faculty Scholarship

Background and Objectives: Learning to balance the clinical, educational, scholarly elements of an academic career is challenging for faculty. To increase research output amongst family medicine faculty with limited no publications, we developed Collaborative Scholarship Intensive (CSI) provide participants intensive instruction in methodology coupled structured writing support protected time writing. Methods: The CSI was by University Minnesota Department Family Medicine Community Health as a six-session development program that enrolled 23 its first three classes. Results: Findings reveal significantly improved their pre- postcourse self-ratings 12 competencies, increased output. Conclusions: Our successfully engaged clinical collaborative program. results suggest focused on may be model other departments.