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Building capacity for medical education research in family medicine: the Program for Innovation in Medical Education (PIME)
BACKGROUND: Despite the apparent benefits to teaching, many faculty members are reluctant to participate in medical education research (MER) for a variety of reasons. In addition to the further demand on their time, physicians often lack the confidence to initiate MER projects and require more suppo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5654060/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29061155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-017-0256-y |
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author | Archibald, Douglas Hogg, William Lemelin, Jacques Dahrouge, Simone St. Jean, Mireille Boucher, François |
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description | BACKGROUND: Despite the apparent benefits to teaching, many faculty members are reluctant to participate in medical education research (MER) for a variety of reasons. In addition to the further demand on their time, physicians often lack the confidence to initiate MER projects and require more support in the form of funding, structure and guidance. These obstacles have contributed to a decline in physician participation in MER as well as to a perceived decay in its quality. As a countermeasure to encourage physicians to undertake research, the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa implemented a programme in which physicians receive the funding, coaching and support staff necessary to complete a 2-year research project. The programme is intended primarily for first-time researchers and is meant to serve as a gateway to a research career funded by external grants. Since its inception in 2010, the Program for Innovation in Medical Education (PIME) has supported 16 new clinician investigators across 14 projects. METHODS: We performed a programme evaluation 3 years after the programme launched to assess its utility to participants. This evaluation employed semi-structured interviews with physicians who performed a research project within the programme. RESULTS: Programme participants stated that their confidence in conducting research had improved and that they felt well supported throughout their project. They appreciated the collaborative nature of the programme and remarked that it had improved their willingness to solicit the expertise of others. Finally, the programme allowed participants to develop in the scholarly role expected by family physicians in Canada. CONCLUSION: The PIME may serve as a helpful model for institutions seeking to engage faculty physicians in Medical Education Research and to thereby enhance the teaching received by their medical learners. |
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spelling | pubmed-56540602017-10-26 Building capacity for medical education research in family medicine: the Program for Innovation in Medical Education (PIME) Archibald, Douglas Hogg, William Lemelin, Jacques Dahrouge, Simone St. Jean, Mireille Boucher, François Health Res Policy Syst Research BACKGROUND: Despite the apparent benefits to teaching, many faculty members are reluctant to participate in medical education research (MER) for a variety of reasons. In addition to the further demand on their time, physicians often lack the confidence to initiate MER projects and require more support in the form of funding, structure and guidance. These obstacles have contributed to a decline in physician participation in MER as well as to a perceived decay in its quality. As a countermeasure to encourage physicians to undertake research, the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa implemented a programme in which physicians receive the funding, coaching and support staff necessary to complete a 2-year research project. The programme is intended primarily for first-time researchers and is meant to serve as a gateway to a research career funded by external grants. Since its inception in 2010, the Program for Innovation in Medical Education (PIME) has supported 16 new clinician investigators across 14 projects. METHODS: We performed a programme evaluation 3 years after the programme launched to assess its utility to participants. This evaluation employed semi-structured interviews with physicians who performed a research project within the programme. RESULTS: Programme participants stated that their confidence in conducting research had improved and that they felt well supported throughout their project. They appreciated the collaborative nature of the programme and remarked that it had improved their willingness to solicit the expertise of others. Finally, the programme allowed participants to develop in the scholarly role expected by family physicians in Canada. CONCLUSION: The PIME may serve as a helpful model for institutions seeking to engage faculty physicians in Medical Education Research and to thereby enhance the teaching received by their medical learners. BioMed Central 2017-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5654060/ /pubmed/29061155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-017-0256-y Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Archibald, Douglas Hogg, William Lemelin, Jacques Dahrouge, Simone St. Jean, Mireille Boucher, François Building capacity for medical education research in family medicine: the Program for Innovation in Medical Education (PIME) |
title | Building capacity for medical education research in family medicine: the Program for Innovation in Medical Education (PIME) |
title_full | Building capacity for medical education research in family medicine: the Program for Innovation in Medical Education (PIME) |
title_fullStr | Building capacity for medical education research in family medicine: the Program for Innovation in Medical Education (PIME) |
title_full_unstemmed | Building capacity for medical education research in family medicine: the Program for Innovation in Medical Education (PIME) |
title_short | Building capacity for medical education research in family medicine: the Program for Innovation in Medical Education (PIME) |
title_sort | building capacity for medical education research in family medicine: the program for innovation in medical education (pime) |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5654060/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29061155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-017-0256-y |
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