Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Can Med Educ J. 2023 Jun 27;14(3):107-110. doi: 10.36834/cmej.75380. eCollection 2023 Jun.
Surveys are being increasingly used to gather feedback and study data in healthcare professions. However, it may be challenging to achieve high response rates in surveys administered to healthcare professionals. The aim of this paper is to report six strategies that contributed to a high response rate on the Independent Student Analysis at the University of Toronto (U of T), which can be applied to other surveys to achieve strong response rates amongst healthcare professionals.
In 2019, as part of accreditation for the U of T MD Program, we conducted the Independent Student Analysis, a student-led survey examining a medical student's experience. We review and critically evaluate the factors that contributed to a robust response rate amongst one of the largest cohorts of medical students in Canada.
Among 1080 students in the MD program, we achieved an unprecedented response rate of 87.2%. Six factors were identified that most contributed to our high response rate, including: faculty support, student representation, eliciting participant feedback, creating protected time for completion, offering incentives, and generating awareness.
Eliciting high survey response rates from medical learners can be challenging. However, with careful consideration of learner feedback and effective employment of the strategies discussed in this paper, medical school faculty may better engage students in survey completion, achieving higher response rates and gathering richer insight, which can be used to more effectively enact meaningful change amongst healthcare professionals.
调查越来越多地被用于收集医疗保健专业人员的反馈和研究数据。然而，要实现对医疗保健专业人员进行的调查的高回应率可能具有挑战性。本文的目的是报告有助于多伦多大学独立学生分析（U of T）获得高回应率的六种策略，这些策略可应用于其他调查，以实现医疗保健专业人员的高回应率。
在 2019 年，作为 U of T MD 课程认证的一部分，我们进行了独立学生分析，这是一项由学生主导的调查，旨在检查医学生的体验。我们回顾并批判性地评估了促成加拿大最大的医学生群体之一获得强大回应率的因素。
在 MD 课程的 1080 名学生中，我们取得了前所未有的 87.2%的回应率。确定了六个对我们高回应率贡献最大的因素，包括：教师支持、学生代表、征求参与者反馈、为完成任务创造受保护的时间、提供奖励以及提高意识。
从医学生那里获得高调查回应率可能具有挑战性。然而，通过仔细考虑学习者的反馈，并有效地采用本文中讨论的策略，医学院教师可以更好地让学生参与调查完成，从而提高回应率并收集更丰富的见解，从而更有效地在医疗保健专业人员中实施有意义的变革。
