MedEdPORTAL Brochure
The voice of MedEdPORTAL resides with its member institutions, affiliations and partner organizations.  MedEdPORTAL seeks to make this voice heard by training individuals, or Advocates, as a channel for the promotion of this unique service program. Advocates play an important role in distributing training information, acting as on-site liaisons and recruiting both submissions and peer reviewers to MedEdPORTAL. This is a flyer for mass dissemination.

MedEdPORTAL Advocate Handbook
In 2005 the Association of American Medical Colleges developed and launched MedEdPORTAL as a free publishing venue and dissemination portal to support educators and learners as they create and use on-line teaching materials, assessment tools, and faculty development resources around the world. The voice of MedEdPORTAL resides with its member institutions, affiliations, and partner organizations. MedEdPORTAL seeks to make this voice heard by training individuals, or Advocates, as a channel for the promotion of this unique service program. Advocates will play an important role in distributing training information, acting as on-site liaisons, and recruiting submissions and peer reviewers to MedEdPORTAL.

MedEdPORTAL Peer Review Handbook
Impartial assessment is an essential component of scholarly review. Peer review is the attentive, unbiased assessment of materials submitted to publication outlets by reviewers and is the very foundation of academic publication. MedEdPORTAL maintains a pool of 800+ nominated expert reviewers that serve as important quality gatekeepers to the system. To evaluate assigned submissions, reviewers must, in part, scrutinize the quality and quantity of information contained in both the provided submission form and in the resource itself. This handbook serves as a foundation for the recruitment and training of reviewers.

MedEdPORTAL Educational Scholarship Guides
MedEdPORTAL was designed to serve as a prestigious publishing venue through which faculty may disseminate their educational works. An educational resource successfully peer-reviewed and published through MedEdPORTAL is comparable to a peer-reviewed research paper published through a reputable print-based journal and should be considered compelling scholarly contributions suitable for use to support promotion and tenure decisions.

An AAMC Educational Working Group on Educational Scholarship was established in 2005 and charged to develop a series of educational documents that describe the definition, peer review, publication, and recognition of educational scholarship in higher education. Drawing on the educational scholarship literature, the documents illustrate how published educational works are comparable to other forms of scholarship that are commonly used for promotion and tenure purposes. The following four documents address these issues in more detail:

1) Educational Scholarship Guide for Faculty - A document developed to guide faculty who are considering publishing their educational resources. It presents the fundamentals of educational scholarship and illustrates how educational resource publications as a form of scholarship are comparable to manuscripts that are published in traditional journals.

2) Educational Resources as Scholarship for Promotion/Tenure - A fact sheet created for all faculty and administrators, particularly those who serve on promotion and tenure committees. This fact sheet describes the principles of educational scholarship and how peer-reviewed educational resources may be considered compelling scholarly contributions to support promotion and tenure.

3) Evaluating Educational Scholarship - A worksheet designed to help users evaluate virtually any educational resource based on accepted standards of scholarship.

4) Author Checklist - A practical checklist developed to help authors prepare their educational materials for submission to MedEdPORTAL.

MedEdPORTAL Author Handbook 
MedEdPORTAL staff created an Author Handbook that contains an overview of MedEdPORTAL and covers the following information:

1) Copyright, Patient Privacy, and Intellectual Property,

2) Submission form and Instructions,

3) Peer-Review Process

4) Examples of successful submissions and publications,

5) Information about usage reports  

Important Links for MedEdPORTAL Advocates

About MedEdPORTAL

Submit to MedEdPORTAL

Submission Instructions

MedEdPORTAL FAQs

Peer Review Overview

MedEdPORTAL Statistics