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Educators in health professions education should know about current issues and emerging trends related to their roles and the field at large. This knowledge informs scholarly work and helps identify best practices to adopt, pitfalls to avoid, and role models to emulate. The literature and expert opinion suggest a four-stage approach for educators to maintain their knowledge of best practices: PLAN, PULL, PUSH, and PLAY. This paper proposes strategies to show how a deliberate approach, supported with technology, may make the overwhelming task of staying up-to-date in the ever-changing field of medical education more manageable and personally rewarding.
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The authors thank participants at the June 2014 meeting of the Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education held in Charleston, SC, for their suggestions on how to say current with the medical education field.
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S. Beth Bierer, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Evaluation, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.
Cecile Foshee, PhD, Postdoctoral Medical Education Fellow, Center for Educational Resources, Cleveland Clinic.
Sebastian Uijtdehaage, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Director of Research and Evaluation, University of California–Los Angeles.
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Bierer, S.B., Foshee, C. & Uijtdehaage, S. Strategies to Remain Current with the Medical Education Field. Med.Sci.Educ. 25, 163–170 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-015-0110-1
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