Transforming your daily work into scholarship: Tips for a busy clinician-scholar

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Academic faculty are pulled in multiple directions during their daily work life. Clinical issues, teaching responsibilities, and administrative duties all take up large amounts of time. At the same time, most faculty have requirements for scholarly activities for promotions. This paper discusses ways that individuals can use much of the work that they do in all of the realms of their jobs and turn it into scholarly projects. By focusing the content of their work, planning ahead, and making everything count twice, faculty can be successful in developing scholarship using their daily work.