Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Residency Program Director, Director of Faculty Development, and Assistant Dean of Education, Baylor College of Medicine at The Children's Hospital of San Antonio.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Pediatric Critical Care Research, and Medical Director, Voelcker Clinical Research Center; Founding Chair of The Children's Hospital of San Antonio Research Steering Committee, Baylor College of Medicine at The Children's Hospital of San Antonio.
MedEdPORTAL. 2020 Dec 24;16:11048. doi: 10.15766/mep_2374-8265.11048.
Demonstrating research productivity for faculty and trainees is challenging in primarily community-based settings, where academic, structural, and financial resources for faculty development in scholarship may be limited. More tools are needed to guide faculty leaders in community-based settings to develop opportunities locally.
At our community-based children's hospital with recent academic affiliation and a new residency program, we developed an annual research symposium targeted to faculty and trainees. We refined tools for solicitation and scoring of abstracts, speaker selection, skill-building workshops, scholarly case report presentations, and a mentored poster session. We worked with available resources, kept costs flexible and low, and secured local partnerships to defray expenses. Evaluation consisted of session evaluations and trends in abstract submissions, institutional review board (IRB) submissions, and resident scholarly productivity over 4 years.
Scholarship improved over the symposium's first 4 years, with increased attendance (from 80 to 150), abstract submissions (from 29 to >50), IRB-approved research projects (from 65 to 123), and positive feedback on symposium evaluations. From our first three resident classes, 61 resident-authored abstracts were presented at our symposia, with 33 presented at regional and national meetings and 15 converted to peer-reviewed manuscripts.
We have developed a local research symposium to meet the needs of a new hospital's faculty and trainees. Evaluation data have allowed us to tailor the program to stakeholder needs. We provide a tool kit of generalizable resources for community-based programs to build on these efforts in a high-yield and cost-effective manner.
在以社区为基础的环境中,展示教职员工和学员的研究成果具有挑战性,因为学术、结构和财政资源可能有限,无法用于学术奖学金的教职员工发展。需要更多的工具来指导社区环境中的教职员工领导在当地开发机会。
在我们的社区儿童医院,我们最近有了学术附属关系和新的住院医师培训计划,我们为教职员工和学员举办了年度研究研讨会。我们改进了征集和评分摘要、选择演讲者、技能建设研讨会、学术案例报告展示以及指导海报会议的工具。我们利用现有资源,保持成本灵活和低廉,并获得当地合作伙伴关系以支付费用。评估包括会议评估以及摘要提交、机构审查委员会 (IRB) 提交和住院医师学术成果在 4 年内的趋势。
研讨会的头 4 年,奖学金得到了改善,与会人数增加(从 80 人增加到 150 人),摘要提交增加(从 29 篇增加到超过 50 篇),IRB 批准的研究项目增加(从 65 个增加到 123 个),并且对研讨会评估的反馈积极。在我们的前三个住院医师班中,有 61 名住院医师作者的摘要在我们的研讨会上展示,其中 33 篇在地区和全国会议上展示,15 篇转化为同行评审的手稿。
我们已经开发了一个本地研究研讨会,以满足新医院教职员工和学员的需求。评估数据使我们能够根据利益相关者的需求调整计划。我们提供了一套通用资源工具包,供社区计划借鉴,以高效和经济的方式开展这些工作。