This is a story of a journey through medical education research, focussing on 15 areas where I feel that I could have done better... It was presented with accompanying slides to evidence each area at the TASME 2013 conference at Warwick University, UK. The slides contain links to support the lessons, where appropriate.
2. Suggested Education
Research Resources
1. Study Design and Grant Writing
Experimental study design and grant writing in eight steps and 28 questions.
Full texts linked to here on Google…
http://ome.med.ufl.edu/files/2009/05/bordage-dawson-med-ed-2003-experimental-design.pdf
2. Letter Writing
Academic Medicine Handbook for Academic Writing Workshop: 120 pages
http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Documents/Handbook%20for%20Academic%20Medicine%20Writing
%20Workshop.pdf
Letter Writing: in a long article, but go to Page 90
http://www.academia.edu/2893356/Identifying_the_most_important_research-is_there_more_to_life_than_Impact_Factors
3. Consort Statement Checklists
http://www.consort-statement.org/consort-statement/
4. Getting funding for things...
ASME http://www.asme.org.uk/awards/
AOME http://www.medicaleducators.org/
ARUK Education Research Fellowship
http://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/health-professionals-and-students/educational-grants-fellowships-and-prizes/
educational-research-fellowship.aspx
ARUK Education Project Grants
http://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/research/grants-you-can-apply-for/types-of-grant/educational-grants-fellowships-and-
prizes/education-project-grants.aspx
3. Suggested Education
Research Resources
5. Journals that Publish Medial Education Research
http://www.med.uottawa.ca/aime/eng/journals.html
6. Research Paradigms Poster: Academic Medicine single page summary
http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2012/03010/
AM_Last_Page___Understanding_Qualitative_and.33.aspx
7. Consider the purchase of/ access to:
Survey software Surveymonkey, Video Capture Tools, Snagit, Dropbox
Endnote (desktop)
8. Misc: Question Writing resources
NBME US : Constructing Written Test Questions
http://www.nbme.org/publications/item-writing-manual.html
5. 1: Get and use a university
affiliation.
• Connection to • Access to software
people involved in and stats
education research – SPSS WORD
• Student 5 years+ Endnote Nvivo OS
with registration – Software4students
– Dynamed etc.
• Access to journals*
– IT discounts
• Access to Training
• Space on the Web*
• What’s a Library?
7. Pointless?
• “So what?
• How do you write a • Medline
letter to a journal? • RAE
• Widely read
• Pointless? What • More interesting –
does the Kieran debunk
• Learn
Walsh at the BMJ • Use rules in other
think… settings
• Single author
• But how? • Low risk strategy
• Commissions
9. Direct Quote…
• “The first paragraph might briefly refer to the article,
and then refer to something complementary about
the study, before stating what it is about the study
that you disagree with (i.e. communicate the point of
the letter).
• The middle section might expand on why you
disagree with parts of the article in some more detail.
Here, you can use published or unpublished data,
personal anecdotes or statistics that support your
views. This is the longest section, but is still concise.
• Finally, restate your major point, and wrap-up with a
succinct conclusion.”
11. Example from Medical
Education research papers.
• The most important orienting question we
would like you to ask yourself while reading
this manuscript is “Did I learn anything?” In
answering this question, please keep in mind
that Medical Education’s main criteria for
judging the publishability of manuscripts are
(1) Educational importance, (2) Originality,
and (3) Methodological rigour, with equal
weight given to each criterion.
12. 5. If you’re going
to publish, pick
your Journal*
16. • Target Population
• Intervention (independent
variable)
• Nature of the Relationship
(differences/ associations)
• Outcome (dependent
variable)
17. 10. Last point is
wrong, the
collaborators and
institution are
most important
18. 11. Present your
work clearly*
28 Questions in Grant Writing
Reviewing Papers: where did the people come from and where did they go
CONSORT statement on results reporting
Study Protocol
19.
20. 12. You cant
avoid Sample
size and power
calculations*
