Accepted Type
Facilitated and Dedicated Poster
Code
LP18 - 05
Acceptance Declaration
Accept
Additional Information
I declare I have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this program.
Was this work accepted for CCME 2020?
yes
Category
General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
Type
Oral
Sub Type
Education Research
Will the presenter be a:
Jr. Faculty (less than 5 years in practice)
Affiliation
Considered for Poster
yes
Title
Residents as research subjects : balancing resident education with contribution to advancing educational innovations.
Length of Presentation
Background/Purpose
Research in education is essential to advance knowledge as well as to improve learning. Medical residents can be solicited as subjects for studies, however no literature defines how to protect their rights as participants and to limit the impact of their participation on their clinical training.
Methods
Through a nominal group technique (NGT) approach, a group of 8 experts in Pediatrics at Université de Montréal, (clinical educators, education researchers, residents and IRB president) developed recommendations to guide how the inclusion of residents as subjects in medical education research can take place with the dual goal of protecting residents' rights while also promoting contribution of researchers' work to medical education literature.
Results
Five issues and recommendations were described. 1) Freedom of participation: participation or non-
participation, or withdrawal from a study should not interfere with teacher-learner relationship (recommendations on procedures for recruitment and content of consent form) ; 2) Over-solicitation of residents (recommendations on the process of limiting the number of ongoing studies); 3) Management of time dedicated to participation to research (recommendations on schedule and proportion of time for study participation); 4) Educational security: data collected during a study should not influence clinical assessment of the resident (recommendations on the role of the researcher as a clinical supervisor); and 5) Emotional security of the learner (recommendation on the requirement for debriefing during simulation-based studies).
Conclusion
This guide is an essential tool to insure respect of resident rights and completion of a robust training program but also to support high quality research in education that will enrich medical education literature.
Keyword 1
Research
Keyword 2
Residents as subjects
Keyword 3
Ethics
Level of Training
Post Graduate
Abstract Themes
Student Affairs
Additional Theme (First choice)
Postgraduate
Additional Theme (Second Choice)
Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Authors
Presenter
Louis-Philippe Thibault
Term 1
Yes
Term 2
Yes
Term 3
Yes
Term 4
Yes
Term 5
Yes
