Research Associates Program: Expanding clinical research productivity with undergraduate students.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Clinical research is often time-consuming and difficult to conduct in busy academic institutions. Previous studies have proposed methods to integrate undergraduate students as a means to increase research productivity. The authors aimed to describe the possibility to enhance emergency department research productivity at an academic emergency department in the United States, using undergraduate students in an Emergency Medicine Research Associates Program.

Methods

The authors described the Emergency Medicine Research Associates Program curriculum and its implementation. We also conducted a retrospective study at a university-based emergency department from January 2005 to December 2014 to demonstrate the benefit of having an established Emergency Medicine Research

SUBMITTER: Hoonpongsimanont W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5598797 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature