Abstract
Medical education research contributes to translational science (TS) when its outcomes not only impact educational settings, but also downstream results, including better patient-care practices and improved patient outcomes. Simulation-based medical education (SBME) has demonstrated its role in achieving such distal results. Effective TS also encompasses implementation science, the science of health-care delivery. Educational, clinical, quality, and safety goals can only be achieved by thematic, sustained, and cumulative research programs, not isolated studies. Components of an SBME TS research program include motivated learners, curriculum grounded in evidence-based learning theory, educational resources, evaluation of downstream results, a productive research team, rigorous research methods, research resources, and health-care system acceptance and implementation. National research priorities are served from translational educational research. National funding priorities should endorse the contribution and value of translational education research.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1097-1103 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | CHEST |
| Volume | 142 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| State | Published - Nov 2012 |
Funding
Funding/Support: Dr McGaghie is funded by the Jacob R. Suker, MD, Professorship in Medical Education from Northwestern University and by the US National Center for Research Resources, US National Institutes of Health [Grant UL 1 RR 025741].
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine