TY - JOUR
T1 - Translational educational research
T2 - A necessity for effective health-care improvement
AU - McGaghie, William C.
AU - Issenberg, S. Barry
AU - Cohen, Elaine R.
AU - Barsuk, Jeffrey H.
AU - Wayne, Diane B.
N1 - Funding Information:
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].
PY - 2012/11
Y1 - 2012/11
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1378/chest.12-0148
DO - 10.1378/chest.12-0148
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 23138127
AN - SCOPUS:84868618965
SN - 0012-3692
VL - 142
SP - 1097
EP - 1103
JO - Diseases of the chest
JF - Diseases of the chest
IS - 5
ER -