Enhancement of clinical practice and scholarship: Possible role of application of positive deviance concept in a resource constained environment

Abstract

The concept of scholarship which had been traditionally viewed as the Discovery of new knowledge has been expanded by Boyer`s definition to also accommodate, Scholarship of Integration, Scholarship of Application and Scholarship of Teaching. In this presentation, the concept of scholarship shall be viewed as any product of a faculty member that utilizes his/her expertise and meets the three P requirements of having been Peer reviewed, placed in the Public domain (print and/or electronic media) and providing a Platform for others to build on – to learn from, to use or to adapt.