Darcy Reed et al.
Journal of the American Medical Association
September 7, 2005, Vol. 294, Issue #9, pg. 1052-1057.
Review by: Linda Heun, Ph.D. <lheun@aacom.org>
Responding to the call for increased rigor in medical education research and funding for innovations by the Institute of Medicine, the authors attempted to identify the costs involved for such research and how it is currently funded. Based on a survey of first authors of medical education studies published from September 1, 2002 to December 31, 2003, the authors used original studies published in the US in 13 peer-reviewed journals.
The outcome measures were:
- duration
- percentage of the authors' total work commitment devoted to the study
- resources used and their costs
- attainment of the funding and
- first author's estimated cost of conducting the study (calculated by multiplying the % effort for each author for the duration of the study by the national median salary for each author, and then adding the costs of resources used)
They concluded that the majority of published medical education research is not formally funded and those that are funded are underfunded. They suggest that policy reform to fund such research is needed.
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