TY - JOUR
T1 - Barriers and Solutions to Advancing Emergency Medicine Simulation–based Research
T2 - A Call to Action
AU - Bentley, Suzanne
AU - Stapleton, Stephanie N.
AU - Moschella, Phillip C.
AU - Ray, Jessica M.
AU - Zucker, Shana M.
AU - Hernandez, Jessica
AU - Rosenman, Elizabeth D.
AU - Wong, Ambrose H.
N1 - Funding Information:
A common pathway for gaining such protected time is through dedicated effort from grant funding. Expanding simulation commitments to include research requires not only additional time commitments from educator‐researchers, but also dedicated support staff time, research assistants, participant incentives, physical space, and specialized equipment. For centers exclusively funded for education or for new simulation investigators without access to an existing research infrastructure, implementing a simulation study may require external funding to pay for these critical resources. Limited project funding was noted as a problem by 65.9% of respondents. With a limited number of simulation‐specific grant opportunities, new or junior simulation‐based researchers face the challenge of introducing their methodology in an already competitive review process for broad award announcements. Achieving grant funding requires new investigators to invest significant time to training in research methodologies, to building a track record of publication as well as dedicated time for preparing grant applications. Thus, while grant funding may offer financial incentive for time spent on research, without protected time from the researcher’s organization, competitive demands remain for the human resource.
Funding Information:
Recommended Action Item #1b: Advocate with foundational and federal agencies to open avenues for funding of simulation‐based research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
PY - 2020/2/1
Y1 - 2020/2/1
N2 - Simulation technology has successfully improved patient safety and care quality through training and assessment of individuals, teams, and health care systems. Emergency medicine (EM) continues to be a leader and pioneer of simulation, including administration of simulation-based fellowships and training programs. However, EM simulation–based research has been limited by low rates of publication and poor methodologic rigor. The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Simulation Academy is leading efforts to improve the quality of scholarship generated by the EM simulation community and to foster successful research careers for future generations of EM simulationists. Through a needs assessment survey of our membership and a year-long consensus-based approach, we identified two main clusters of barriers to simulation-based research: lack of protected time and dedicated resources and limited training and mentorship. As a result, we generated four position statements with implications for education, training, and research in EM simulation and as a call to action for the academic EM community. Recommendations include expansion of funding opportunities for simulation-based research, creation of multi-institutional simulation collaboratives, and development of mentorship and training pathways that promote rigor in design and methodology within EM simulation scholarship.
AB - Simulation technology has successfully improved patient safety and care quality through training and assessment of individuals, teams, and health care systems. Emergency medicine (EM) continues to be a leader and pioneer of simulation, including administration of simulation-based fellowships and training programs. However, EM simulation–based research has been limited by low rates of publication and poor methodologic rigor. The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Simulation Academy is leading efforts to improve the quality of scholarship generated by the EM simulation community and to foster successful research careers for future generations of EM simulationists. Through a needs assessment survey of our membership and a year-long consensus-based approach, we identified two main clusters of barriers to simulation-based research: lack of protected time and dedicated resources and limited training and mentorship. As a result, we generated four position statements with implications for education, training, and research in EM simulation and as a call to action for the academic EM community. Recommendations include expansion of funding opportunities for simulation-based research, creation of multi-institutional simulation collaboratives, and development of mentorship and training pathways that promote rigor in design and methodology within EM simulation scholarship.
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U2 - 10.1002/aet2.10406
DO - 10.1002/aet2.10406
M3 - Article
C2 - 32072117
AN - SCOPUS:85075912054
SN - 2472-5390
VL - 4
SP - S130-S139
JO - AEM Education and Training
JF - AEM Education and Training
IS - S1
ER -