Teaching and learning: Defining the scholarship of teaching

Abstract

Prior to joining the Centre for Education, the full extent of my knowledge of hospitals came from the television series Scrubs. As I began my work, there were so many aspects of radiology education that I had never heard of before: objective structured clinical examination, CanMEDS, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC). I initially found it to be overwhelming, but I developed some useful tools: first I developed an acronym dictionary to help me with the acronyms involved in my day-to-day work; I designed a comparative curriculum map that positioned our department's radiology curriculum alongside the Royal College's expectations and the curricula of other radiology departments across Canada. This gave me a better understanding of what radiology programs entail. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.