title: The research innovation and scholarship in education program: an innovative way to nurture education.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Education is becoming a recognized career path in psychiatry. Yet, there are few published accounts of how to create sustainable structures within departments to support this academic focus. The authors document the creation and 5-year progress of the Research Innovation and Scholarship in Education (RISE) program at the largest psychiatry department in Canada.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors analyzed the RISE archive of early proposals for enhancing scholarship in the department, the 5-year plan, annual reports, and curricular vitae of members and also gathered testimonials from inaugural residents and fellows of the program. Materials were analyzed using Boyer's framework of scholarship.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Organizationally, RISE has embodied all four tenets of Boyer's model of scholarship. The program has allowed education research, teaching, and creative professional development to flourish in the department, and there are considerably fewer barriers to pursuing an education career path. However, as the program expands, more work needs to be done to increase funding and protected time so that even more residents, fellows, and faculty can engage in educational scholarship.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Enhancing medical education scholarship through a model that actively integrates research with teaching, creative professional development, and mentorship can help the trajectories of faculty and students wishing to make education a priority in their careers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and the Wilson Centre for Research in Education at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. tina.martimianakis@utoronto.ca
authors.forename: Maria Tina
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Martimianakis
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: McNaughton
authors.forename: Glendon R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Tait
authors.forename: Andrea E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Waddell
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lieff
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Silver
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hodges
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D009864:Ontario; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000592:standards; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D012106:Research / Q000193:education*