Strategies to expand the definition of scholarship for the health professions.

Standards for promotions and tenure for health professions faculty must require the same intellectual and methodologic rigor as those in other academic areas. The challenge is to expand the traditional view of scholarship as research to include scholarship of teaching, application, and integration and to develop methods for documenting these. This article describes four strategies instituted by Allegheny University of the Health Sciences to address this challenge. Results of two of the strategies, a workshop for appointments and promotions and tenure committee members, and a workshop for preparing junior faculty for academic advancement are discussed. The four strategies described are intended to serve as models to stimulate discussion and innovation at other institutions.