Work in progress: Highlights in EM Educational Research 2009

The gang is all back together!

In June 2009, 5 of my good friends in academics and I collaborated to write an article for the journal Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM). This manuscript, entitled Highlights in Emergency Medicine Educational Research: 2008, will be published in AEM in the next few months. We are getting together again to work on the 2009 review.

I'm lucky to be able to work with well-respected and well-published educators in EM. I'm not exactly sure how I got to "roll with this crowd", but I'm thrilled to be able to. I'm following my first rule in academics -- surround yourself with inspiring and dedicated individuals, and you can't steer wrong. Here's the powerhouse team:
  • Sue Farrell, MD EdM (Harvard/Brigham)
  • Wendy Coates, MD (Harbor-UCLA)
  • Gloria Kuhn, MD PhD (Wayne State)
  • Jonathan Fisher, MD MPH a.k.a. "Fish" (Beth Israel)
  • Philip Shayne, MD (Emory)
  • ... and me.

This paper highlighted the 5 best medical education research articles for 2008, relevant to EM. These high-quality articles were selected based on consensus opinion of 6 independent reviewers, using a priori criteria each assessed on a 5-point Likert scale.
  • Clarity of the study question
  • Applicability of the research design to the study question
  • Data collection methods
  • Data analysis
  • Relevance to teaching
  • Generalizability of the results
  • Innovation of the study
  • Clarity of writing
What were these top 5 educational research articles?
  • Baskin C, Seetharamu N, Mazure B, Vassalo L, Steinberg H et al.: Effect of a CD-ROM-based educational intervention on resident knowledge and adherence to deep venous thrombosis prophylaxis guidelines. J Hosp Med. 2008;3(1):42-7.
  • Chenkin J, Lee S, Huynh T, Bandiera G: Procedures can be learned on the Web: a randomized study of ultrasound-guided vascular access teaching. Acad Emerg Med. 2008;Oct15;(10):949-54.
  • Lampe CJ, Coates WC, Gill AM: Emergency medicine subinternship: does a standard clinical experience improve performance outcomes? Acad Emerg Med. 2008;15:82-5.
  • Wenk M, Waurick R, Schotes D, Wenk M, Gerdes C et al.: Simulation-based medical education is no better than problem-based discussions and induces misjudgment in self-assessment. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2008;Jan 24 [ePub ahead of print]
  • Youngblood P, Harter PM, Srivastava S, Moffett S, Heinrichs WL, et al.: Design, development, and evaluation of an online virtual emergency department for training trauma teams. Simul Healthc. 2008;Fall;3(3):146-53.
We are starting to bring the team back together to start reviewing the EM education research articles from 2009. We are currently thinking about incorporating the MERSQI instrument (described in yesterday's blog) for scoring quantitative educational research studies into our scoring system. The problem with the MERSQI instrument, however, is that it does not evaluate qualitative research, which is also a valid approach to studying education.
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