Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Tex.
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, Tex.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2019 Feb;157(2):820-827.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2018.09.117. Epub 2018 Oct 19.
There is a clear need for improved quality of research publications in the area of cardiothoracic surgical education. With the goals of enhancing the power, rigor, and strength of educational investigations, the Thoracic Education Cooperative Group seeks to outline key concepts in successfully conducting such research.
Literature and established guidelines for conduct of research in surgical education were reviewed, and recommendations were developed for investigators in thoracic surgical education.
Key steps in educational research are highlighted and discussed with regard to their application to cardiothoracic surgical education. Specifically, advice is provided in terms of developing a research question, educational methodology, ethical issues, and handling power and sample sizes. Additional caveats of educational research that are addressed include aspects of validity, survey conduct, and simulation research.
Educational research can serve to enhance the practices and careers of current trainees, our scientific community, and thoracic surgical educators. To optimize the quality of such educational research, it is imperative that teachers, innovators, and contributors to academic scholarship in our field familiarize themselves with key steps in conducting educational studies.
在心胸外科教育领域，提高研究出版物质量的需求非常明确。为了提高教育研究的力度、严谨性和强度，胸科教育合作组旨在概述成功开展此类研究的关键概念。
回顾了外科教育中进行研究的文献和既定准则，并为胸外科教育的研究人员制定了建议。
重点强调了教育研究的关键步骤，并讨论了它们在心胸外科教育中的应用。具体而言，就提出研究问题、教育方法、伦理问题以及处理能力和样本量提供了建议。还讨论了教育研究的其他注意事项，包括有效性、调查实施和模拟研究等方面。
教育研究可以促进当前受训者、我们的科学界以及心胸外科教育者的实践和职业发展。为了优化此类教育研究的质量，我们领域的教师、创新者和学术贡献者必须熟悉进行教育研究的关键步骤。
