Blog Week 6: Exploring Online Resources Part 1

In this week’s blog, I will delve into the online portion of my senior project and seek out outside opinions on how to effectively conduct clinical research.

Recently, I read an article titled “How to make research succeed in your emergency department: How to develop and train career researchers in emergency medicine.” This study was a massive study of Canadian emergency medical researchers. Its methods included emailing a survey to all Canadian emergency physician researchers, analyzing the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and formatting a review of all this information to present recommendations to the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (Perry et al., 2015). Clearly, an enormous amount of resources and time have been dedicated to this study. Therefore, their results could be key to my study.

The researchers discovered five key themes across the study: creating training opportunities, ensuring adequate protected time, salary support, infrastructure, and mentorship (Perry et al., 2015). These themes are key to ensuring success in Emergency Department Research. Here is my analysis of the five themes:

1. Training opportunities are important to give employees the chance to learn and practice how to research in the Emergency Department.
2. Emergency medical researchers need adequate protected time, so they have enough time to pursue research.
3. Salary support will help keep researchers satisfied with their careers and works as a support method.
4. Infrastructure is essential in any field because, without a built-out infrastructure, the research system will not work effectively.
5. Mentorship allows new emergency medical researchers to be introduced into the field with more guidance and ease.

Perry, Jeffrey J, et al. “CAEP 2014 Academic Symposium: “How to Make Research Succeed in Your Emergency Department: How to Develop and Train Career Researchers in Emergency Medicine.” Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1 May 2015, https://doi.org/10.1017/cem.2015.63