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Since late 2018, Drs. Kendall M. Campbell (University of Texas Medical Branch), José E. Rodríguez (University of Utah Health), and Judy C. Washington (Overlook Family Medicine and Atlantic Health) have been working with early to mid-career faculty as they develop their portfolio of scholarship.
It began with a small $15,000 grant from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) to teach seven new faculty members writing and research skills. The project was unique as it was sponsored by the Minority and Multicultural Health Collaborative, and it was specifically focused on those faculty who identified as underrepresented in medicine (URM). URM was defined as being part of one of the following groups: Black or African American, Latinx (Hispanic or Latino), American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, or a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. The first three cohorts, as well as the faculty (Campbell, Rodríguez, and Washington) have all identified as URM by this definition.
After the first cohort, the projects were institutionalized, and STFM obtained a much larger grant from the American Board of Family Medicine to fund the project as a fellowship. Drs. Campbell, Rodríguez, and Washington were awarded the 2021 Presidents Award from STFM, and the fellowship was re-branded as the Leadership through Scholarship Fellowship (LTSF).
In reality, Leadership through Scholarship Fellowship is a two-year fellowship. The first year is full of didactics—teaching research and scholarship skills, instrumental career mentoring, and leadership education. The second year, fellows spend time as scholar mentors. The scholar mentor year is designed to allow those who recently completed the fellowship to one, mentor new fellows, and two, work with them on their individual writing projects. Even though this program is relatively new, there have been many accomplishments. To date, the fellowship has had:
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