{"pk":18391,"title":"A Collaborative Approach to Mentored Peer Reviews Sponsored by the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Introduction:\n Historically, there have been no systematic programs for teaching peer review, leaving trainees to learn by trial and error. Recently, a number of publications have advocated for programs where experienced reviewers mentor trainees to more efficiently acquire this knowledge.\nObjective: \nOur goal was to develop an introductory learning experience that intentionally fosters peer-review skills.\nMethods: \nThe Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD) offered education fellowship directors the opportunity to mentor their fellows by reviewing submitted manuscript(s) supplemented by educational material provided by their journal. Reviews were collaboratively created. The decision letter that was sent to manuscript authors was also sent to the mentees; it included all reviewers’ and editor’s comments, as feedback. In 2022, fellows received a post-experience survey regarding prior experiences and their perspectives of the mentored peer-review experience.\nResults:\n From 2020–2022, participation grew from 14 to 30 education fellowships, providing 76 manuscript peer reviews. The 2022 survey-response rate of 87% (20/23) revealed that fellows were inexperienced in education scholarship prior to participation: 30% had authored an education paper, and 10% had performed peer review of an education manuscript. Overall, participants were enthusiastic about the program and anxious to participate the following year. In addition, participants identified a number of benefits of the mentored experience including improved understanding of the scholarship process; informing fellows’ scholarly pursuits; improved conceptualization of concepts learned elsewhere in training; and learning through exposure to scholarship.\nConclusion: \nThis program’s early findings suggest that collaboration between academic societies and interested graduate medical education faculty has the potential to formalize the process of learning peer review, benefitting all involved stakeholders.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Mentored Peer-Review, Evaluation, Academic Societies, Experiential Learning"}],"section":"Research Methods","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6f2742m1","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jeffrey","middle_name":"N.","last_name":"Love","name_suffix":"","institution":"Georgetown University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Chris","middle_name":"","last_name":"Merritt","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University, Alpert Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Jonathan","middle_name":"S.","last_name":"Ilgen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Washington, Department of Emergency Medicine, Seattle, Washington","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Anne","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Messman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Wayne State University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Detroit, Michigan","department":"None"},{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"P.","last_name":"Way","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ohio State University College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbus, Ohio","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Douglas","middle_name":"S.","last_name":"Ander","name_suffix":"","institution":"Emory University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Wendy","middle_name":"C.","last_name":"Coates","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California: Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2023-07-02T11:44:20-07:00","date_accepted":"2023-07-02T11:44:20-07:00","date_published":"2023-12-06T13:34:12-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/18391/galley/9437/download/"}]}