(Written by K. Underman)
Merlin and I currently meet once a week for one hour. My plan is for us to continue weekly meetings of approximately one to one and a half hours, with frequent email check-ins in between. Merlin keeps a work journal for me as part of the work she started during her fellowship. Before we meet, she writes a memo and a detailed list of tasks that she worked on and any questions or issues she has. Merlin and I are co-authoring an article for Medical Education. (Or at least, that journal is first on our list.) This is based on the data she collected for the fellowship. I will be first author on this and she will be second. I have outlined the paper and developed a 'syllabus' of articles on the topic for her to read each week of the independent study. These are all sociology of medical education articles to teach her about the field. She's also working on a literature review of the medical education literature on our topic (standardized patients) to be used in the paper. I haven't fully finalized the syllabus yet, but I intend for her to read three to four articles a week in addition to the literature review and paper writing work. She'll also be reading about methods. Merlin will be helping to write a substantial portion of the paper. My plan is to break the independent study up by four for each section of the paper (Intro, Methods, Findings, Conclusion). For two weeks each section, Merlin will write based on my outline, will send it to me, I will edit, I will send it back, etc. She knows that co-authorship is a lot of work and is excited to do it. (And seems very capable.) The goal is to have a paper ready to submit by the end of the summer.
Merlin and I currently meet once a week for one hour. My plan is for us to continue weekly meetings of approximately one to one and a half hours, with frequent email check-ins in between. Merlin keeps a work journal for me as part of the work she started during her fellowship. Before we meet, she writes a memo and a detailed list of tasks that she worked on and any questions or issues she has. Merlin and I are co-authoring an article for Medical Education. (Or at least, that journal is first on our list.) This is based on the data she collected for the fellowship. I will be first author on this and she will be second. I have outlined the paper and developed a 'syllabus' of articles on the topic for her to read each week of the independent study. These are all sociology of medical education articles to teach her about the field. She's also working on a literature review of the medical education literature on our topic (standardized patients) to be used in the paper. I haven't fully finalized the syllabus yet, but I intend for her to read three to four articles a week in addition to the literature review and paper writing work. She'll also be reading about methods. Merlin will be helping to write a substantial portion of the paper. My plan is to break the independent study up by four for each section of the paper (Intro, Methods, Findings, Conclusion). For two weeks each section, Merlin will write based on my outline, will send it to me, I will edit, I will send it back, etc. She knows that co-authorship is a lot of work and is excited to do it. (And seems very capable.) The goal is to have a paper ready to submit by the end of the summer.