McClean Adam, Huo Bright, Kwan Jing Yi, Long Judith, Walshaw Josephine, Mesri Mina, Francis Nader, Arulampalam Tan H, Chetter Ian, Yiasemidou Marina
Clinical Fellow General Surgery, Bradford Teaching Hospitals, Bradford, United Kingdom.
Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
Front Surg. 2023 Jun 19;10:1197103. doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2023.1197103. eCollection 2023.
The European Association of Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) is a surgical society who promotes the development and expansion of minimally invasive surgery to surgeons and surgical trainees. It does so through its activities in education, training, and research. The EAES research committee aims to promote the highest quality clinical research in endoscopic and minimally invasive surgery. They have provided grant funding since 2009 in education, surgery, and basic science. Despite the success and longevity of the scheme, the academic and non-academic impact of the research funding scheme has not been evaluated.
The primary aim of this project is to assess the short, long term academic and real world impact of the EAES funding scheme. The secondary aims are to identify barriers and facilitators for achieving good impact.
This will be a mixed qualitative and quantitative study. Semi-structured interviews will be performed with previous grant recipients. The questions for the interviews will be selected after a consensus is achieved amongst the members of the steering committee of this project. The responses will be transcribed and thematic analysis will be applied. The results of the thematic analysis will be used to populate a questionnaire which will be disseminated to grant recipients. This study is kindly funded by the EAES.
The first question this project is expected to answer is whether the EAES research funding scheme had a significant positive impact on research output, career progression but also non-academic output such as change in clinical guidelines, healthcare quality and cost-effectiveness improvement. This project however is also expected to identify facilitators and barriers to successful completion of projects and to achieving high impact. This will inform EAES and the rest of the surgical and academic communities as to how clinicians would like to be supported when conducting research. There should also be a positive and decisive change towards removing factors that hinder the timely and successful completion of projects.
欧洲内镜外科学会（EAES）是一个外科学会，致力于向外科医生和外科实习生推广微创手术的发展与拓展。该学会通过其在教育、培训和研究方面的活动来实现这一目标。EAES研究委员会旨在推动内镜和微创手术领域的最高质量临床研究。自2009年以来，他们已在教育、外科手术和基础科学领域提供了资助资金。尽管该计划取得了成功且持续时间较长，但研究资助计划的学术和非学术影响尚未得到评估。
本项目的主要目的是评估EAES资助计划的短期、长期学术和现实世界影响。次要目的是确定实现良好影响的障碍和促进因素。
这将是一项定性与定量相结合的研究。将对之前的资助获得者进行半结构化访谈。访谈问题将在本项目指导委员会成员达成共识后选定。访谈回复将被转录并应用主题分析。主题分析结果将用于编制一份问卷，该问卷将分发给资助获得者。本研究由EAES慷慨资助。
本项目预计要回答的第一个问题是，EAES研究资助计划是否对研究产出、职业发展产生了重大积极影响，同时对非学术产出，如临床指南的变化、医疗质量和成本效益的提高等是否也有影响。然而，本项目还预计要确定项目成功完成以及实现高影响力的促进因素和障碍。这将为EAES以及其他外科和学术团体提供信息，告知他们临床医生在开展研究时希望得到怎样的支持。在消除阻碍项目及时、成功完成的因素方面，也应该有积极且决定性的改变。
