Building Capacity in Education Scholarship at Women’s College Hospital: A Website Development Project
Author(s): Indira Akula, Jordan Benadiba, Amy Gleiser, Joyce Nyhof-Young
Context: The Academics Program at Women’s College Hospital (WCH) aims to build capacity in education scholarship (ES) across the institution to enhance our equity and impact in education, support integration of a learning health system, and promote the hospital’s mandate to revolutionize and ensure equitable healthcare and systems.
Problem: Most of our busy clinicians, health professions educators, and staff are new to ES and lack time to investigate the topic and discipline. Providing novel ES information and content tailored to their needs on the WCH website would support our program’s ES capacity building efforts.
Purpose: We aim to analyze the content of publicly available ‘state-of-the-art’ ES websites for relevant information and presentation styles (e.g., text, videos, multimedia) that will support our stakeholders’ efforts to enhance our institution’s local, national, and international ES capacity and impact.
Methods: Phase 1: ‘Best practice’ information from >60 previously curated ES websites in education (e.g., university, health professions education, and faculty development centres) and healthcare (e.g., hospitals, research units) will be iteratively reviewed and a ‘table-of-contents’ of WCH relevant ES materials developed. Phase 2: These drafts will be circulated among diverse stakeholders for feedback according to their learning needs.
Impact and Implications: This website ES content development project is a ‘work in progress’ aiming to support our efforts at WCH to develop an applied, participatory, community-centric ES program and culture. Our content development efforts are prioritizing equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and the ES needs of our health professions and clinical teachers and staff.