Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232-2158, USA.
Acad Med. 2012 Aug;87(8):1052-9. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31825d29d4.
The Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research implemented the "Studio" Program in 2007 to bring together experts to provide free, structured, project-specific feedback for medical researchers. Studios are a series of integrated, dynamic, and interactive roundtable discussions that bring relevant research experts from diverse academic disciplines together to focus on a specific research project at a specific stage. Vanderbilt's Clinical and Translational Science Award supports the program, which is designed to improve the quality and impact of biomedical research. In this article, the authors describe the program's design, and they provide an evaluation of its first four years.After an investigator completes a brief online Studio application, a Studio "manager" reviews the request, assembles a panel of three to six experts (research faculty from multiple disciplines), and circulates the pre-review materials electronically. Investigators can request one of seven Studio formats: hypothesis generation, study design, grant review, implementation, analysis and interpretation, manuscript review, or translation. A Studio moderator leads each Studio session, managing the time (90 minutes) and discussion to optimize the usefulness of the session for the investigator.Feedback from the 157 Studio sessions in the first four years has been overwhelmingly positive. Investigators have indicated that their Studios have improved the quality of their science (99%; 121/122 responses), and experts have reported that the Studios have been a valuable use of their time (98%; 398/406 responses).
范德比尔特临床与转化研究所以实施"工作室"计划，该计划于 2007 年汇集专家，为医学研究人员提供免费、结构化、特定于项目的反馈。工作室是一系列集成的、动态的和互动的圆桌讨论，将来自不同学术领域的相关研究专家聚集在一起，专注于特定研究项目的特定阶段。范德比尔特临床与转化科学奖支持该计划，旨在提高生物医学研究的质量和影响力。在本文中，作者描述了该计划的设计，并对其前四年进行了评估。在研究人员完成简短的在线工作室申请后，工作室"经理"会审查请求，组建一个由三到六名专家组成的小组（来自多个学科的研究人员），并以电子方式分发预评审材料。研究人员可以请求七种工作室格式之一：假说生成、研究设计、资助审查、实施、分析和解释、手稿审查或翻译。工作室主持人领导每次工作室会议，管理时间（90 分钟）和讨论，以最大限度地提高会议对研究人员的有用性。在头四年的 157 次工作室会议中，反馈意见非常积极。研究人员表示，他们的工作室提高了他们科学的质量（99%；121/122 次回复），专家们表示，工作室是他们宝贵的时间利用（98%；398/406 次回复）。
