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The educator’s portfolio is a structured document that is often used to support promotion and teaching award applications. It is distinct from a curriculum vitae. This chapter will describe why, when, and how an academic emergency physician should create this document.

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Lawrence E. Kass

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Robert P. Olympia

  2. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Elizabeth Barrall Werley

  3. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Jeffrey S. Lubin

  4. MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA

    Kahyun Yoon-Flannery

Appendix

Appendix

EDUCATOR PORTFOLIO TEMPLATE

NAME:

TITLE(S):

PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL ROLE(S):

Date of last update:

STATEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY

GOALS AS AN EDUCATOR

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

EDUCATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

SECTION I: TEACHING

  • I.1. Description of Teaching Activities

Table I.1 Teaching activities
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For the following narrative responses, you may wish to choose 1–2 focal areas of teaching for more detailed comments:

Describe the importance, creativity, innovation, and impact of the teaching activities included in Table I.1. (identify by Activity Number).

  • I.2. Assessment of Learner Outcomes

Table I.2 Learner assessment
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For the following narrative responses, you may wish to choose 1–2 of the above types of learner assessment for more detailed comments:

  • I.3. Evaluation of Teaching

Table I.3 Teaching evaluations
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SECTION II: CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

Table II.1a Curriculum development activities
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Table II.1b GNOME* Analysis of curriculum
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Additional narrative details or comments:

SECTION III: MENTORING/ADVISING

  • III. 1. Description of Mentoring and Advising Activities

Table III.1 Mentoring and advising
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SECTION IV: EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP/ADMINISTRATION

  • IV. 1. Description of Educational Leadership and Administrative Activities

Table IV.1 Description of educational leadership and educational activities
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SECTION V: OTHER INFORMATION

  • V. 1. Professional Reviewer/Moderator Activities at the National Level

A table has 4 columns for activity number, what was reviewed or moderated, years of review or moderating, and sponsoring organization or institution or agency. The rows have no entries.

  • V. 2. Educational grants funded

  • V. 3. Education Awards/Honorable Mentions

Table V.3 Education awards and recognition
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  • V. 4. Publications and Scholarly Products Related to Education

  • V. 5. Workshops and Peer-reviewed/Invited Presentations on Educational Topics

  • V. 6. Professional Development in Education (conferences, certification, degree programs)

Table V.6 Professional development in education
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Kass, L.E. (2023). Creating an Educational Portfolio. In: Olympia, R.P., Werley, E.B., Lubin, J.S., Yoon-Flannery, K. (eds) An Emergency Physician’s Path. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47873-4_42

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