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Educational Scholarship and Technology: Resources for a Changing Undergraduate Medical Education Curriculum

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Returning to the original emphasis of higher education, universities have increasingly recognized the value and scholarship of teaching, and medical schools have been part of this educational scholarship movement. At the same time, the preferred learning styles of a new generation of medical students and advancements in technology have driven a need to incorporate technology into psychiatry undergraduate medical education (UGME). Educators need to understand how to find, access, and utilize such educational technology. This article provides a brief historical context for the return to education as scholarship, along with a discussion of some of the advantages to this approach, as well as several recent examples. Next, the educational needs of the current generation of medical students, particularly their preference to have technology incorporated into their education, will be discussed. Following this, we briefly review the educational scholarship of two newer approaches to psychiatry UGME that incorporate technology. We also offer the reader some resources for accessing up-to-date educational scholarship for psychiatry UGME, many of which take advantage of technology themselves. We conclude by discussing the need for promotion of educational scholarship.

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    Brandon N. Kyle, Irma Corral, Nadyah Janine John & P. G. Shelton

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Kyle, B.N., Corral, I., John, N.J. et al. Educational Scholarship and Technology: Resources for a Changing Undergraduate Medical Education Curriculum. Psychiatr Q 88, 249–261 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11126-016-9474-7

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