Academic Primer Series: Five Key Papers Fostering Educational Scholarship in Junior Academic Faculty.
BACKGROUND
Scholarship is an essential part of academic success. Junior faculty members are often unfamiliar with the grounding literature that defines educational scholarship. In this article, the authors aim to summarize five key papers which outline education scholarship in the setting of academic contributions for emerging clinician educators.


METHODS
The authors conducted a consensus-building process to generate a list of key papers that describe the importance and significance of academic scholarship, informed by social media sources. They then used a three-round voting methodology, akin to a Delphi study, to determine the most useful papers.


RESULTS
A summary of the five most important papers on the topic of academic scholarship, as determined by this mixed group of junior faculty members and faculty developers, is presented in this paper. These authors subsequently wrote a summary of these five papers and discussed their relevance to both junior faculty members and faculty developers.


CONCLUSIONS
Five papers on education scholarship, deemed essential by the authors' consensus process, are presented in this paper. These papers may help provide the foundational background to help junior faculty members gain a grasp of the academic scholarly environment. This list may also inform senior faculty and faculty developers on the needs of junior educators in the nascent stages of their careers.
McMaster University, Department of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Teresa M
TM
Chan
Rush University Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
Michael
M
Gottlieb
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
Abra L
AL
Fant
Sinai Grace Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Detroit, Michigan.
Anne
A
Messman
University of Illinois, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
Daniel W
DW
Robinson
Geisinger Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Danville, Pennsylvania.
Robert R
RR
Cooney
Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dimitrios
D
Papanagnou
Oregon Health & Science University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Portland, Oregon.
Lalena M
LM
Yarris
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