Scholarship of Teaching Grants

Scholarship of Teaching has been defined as having three critical elements: 1. a tangible or electronic product, 2. peer reviewed for quality, and 3.publicly disseminated for others to use and build upon¹. In order to enhance the Scholarship of Teaching at UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, the Academic Center for Excellence in Teaching (ACET) provides a Scholarship of Teaching Grants (STG) Program. Over sixty faculty members from across multiple disciplines at the UT Health Science Center have received STG awards since 1996. STG awards have been used for a variety of projects including developing computer-based learning modules, Web-based courses, pilot-testing new strategies to evaluate student competence, environmental health and safety and conducting research to measure the effectiveness of educational strategies.
The Scholarship of Teaching Grants (STG) Program provides start-up grants to support faculty efforts to develop innovative educational or evaluation methods with the goal of improving educational methodology and learning outcomes. The program provides financial support up to a maximum of $5,000 per project.
2009 Scholarship of Teaching Application Forms
STG applications are awarded on a competitive basis. The applications are reviewed and selected for funding by a multidisciplinary panel of faculty representatives from all UTHSCSA schools and other academic support units, along with the Academic Technology Services (ATS) Advisory Committee.

 

2009 Pre-Proposal Development Workshops (Schedule, handouts, and PowerPoints)

 

Online application forms, grant proposal and submission instructions are available.
To obtain additional information about the Scholarship of Teaching Grants Program, please contact Raymond A. Howard, Evaluation Specialist at (210) 567-2813 or howardr3@uthscsa.edu.

 

Ruth-Marie E Fincher, Janis A Work (2006) Perspectives on the Scholarship of Teaching Medical Education 40 (4), 293–295.

 

2009 Scholarship of Teaching Grant Awardees

Brenda J. Talley, MD: Efficiently and Effectively Teaching Mental Status Exams to Medical Students

Taline Dalian Infante, DDS: Realizing Enhanced Student Inter-Professional Education through Clinical Teamwork (RESPECT)

Craig M. Klugman, Ph.D.: Online Advance Care Planning Through Social Networking

Erica R. Oliveira, DDS: Case-sharing online learning to enhance dental students clinical education

Bridgett Piernik-Yoder, Ph.D.: Facilitating scholarship of teaching through development of electronic course portfolios

Ross Willis, Ph.D.: Comparison of Four Pedagogical Approaches to Psychomotor Skills Acquisition

Amruta D. Parekh, MD, MPH: Design and implement an online flash presentation of the Healthcare Matrix for a Quality Improvement (QI) and Patient Safety (PS) Rotation for Internal Medicine Residents at UTHSCSA

2007 Scholarship of Teaching Grant Awardees

Thea Ballinger, MD, Jim Tysinger, PhD, Mark Nadeau, MD, and Juanita Trevino (Family and Community Medicine): Mobile Medicine Podcast Program

Jean Petershack, MD (Pediatrics), Cathy Robichaux, MD (Anesthesiology), and Sara Gill, PhD (Family Nursing): Interdisciplinary Education in Palliative Care

Pranavi Sreeramoju, MD (Medicine), Jennifer Peel, PhD (Anesthesiology), Aggie Manwell-Jackson, PhD (Academic Informatics Services), and Jan Patterson, MD (Medicine): Infection Prevention Education for UT Health Science Center at San Antonio Personnel

Robert Badgett, M.D. (Medicine), Glen Medellin, M.D. (Pediatrics): A Free-text Based Audience Response System to Enhance Team Learning and Group Decision Making

Alicia Galvan, DDS, Kelly Halligan, DDS, Adriana Vargas, DDS, Mary Norma Partida, DDS (General Dentistry): Heroes for the Homeless: Strategies for Teaching Dental Students about Cultural Competency

2007 UT System Health Science Education Small Grant Awards

Six proposals were funded and 3 are from UT Health Science Center at San Antonio:

1. Dr. Glen Medellin (Pediatrics): Wireless Classroom Network: Engaging Students through Audience Response Systems and Team Based Learning

2. Dr. Jean Petershack (Pediatrics): Performance Assessment of the Newborn History and Physical Examination by Medical Students and Residents

3. Dr. Sandra Sanchez-Reilly (Family & Community Medicine): Development and Implementation of an End-of-Life Communication Skills Educational Intervention for Interdisciplinary Trainees: The DIE-COM

2006 Scholarship of Teaching Grant Awardees

D. Martin Bitner, MD, MS, Somayaji Ramamurthy, MD, Susan Noorily, MD, and Douglas M. Anderson, MD (Anesthesiology): Dynamic Visual Simulation of the Supraclavicular Nerve Block

Deborah L. Cardell, M. and Debra K. Hunt, MD (Medicine, Division of General Medicine): Pre-residency Intensive Spanish Course for Department of Medicine

Michael Freckleton, MD, Neal Dalrymple, MD, Sammir Chhaya, MD (Diagnostic Radiology) and Steve Liu, PhD (Texas A&M, Department of Computer): Innovative Database Design for Management of Medical Case Material

K. Christopher McMains, MD (Otalaryngology/HNS) and Prasanna Vibhute, MD (Radiology): Interactive Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Training

Martha A. Medrano, MD, MPH, Michelle Turecheck, EdM, and Melissa Palomo-Ramon (Medical Hispanic Center of Excellence): Virtual Women’s Health Library/ Course

Kathleen R. Stevens, RN, EdD, FAAN (Family Nursing/School of Nursing), Vicki L. Byers, RN, PhD, Mary L. Heye, PhD, Judy Trotti, RN, MSN, ACNP (Acute Nursing Care/School of Nursing): Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Evidence-Based Practice

Kristine S. Vogel, PhD, Linda Johnson, PhD (Cellular and Structural Biology) and M.A. Manwell-Jackson, PhD (Academic Information Services): UTHSCSA Virtual Tutorial and Review Sessions for Medical Embryology

 

2005 Scholarship of Teaching Grant Awardees

2004 Scholarship of Teaching Grant Awardees