The View From the Top: Academic Emergency Department Chairs' Perspectives on Education Scholarship.

ABSTRACT: Education scholarship continues to grow within emergency medicine (EM) and in academic medicine in general. Despite a growing interest, would-be education scholars often struggle to find adequate mentorship, research training, funding, and protected time to produce rigorous scholarship. The ways in which individual academic EM departments can support this mission remains an area in need of description.

Objectives

We sought to describe academic EM department chairs' perceptions of education scholarship and facilitators and barriers to producing high-quality education scholarship.

Methods

We conducted a qualitative study using a grounded theory-derived approach. Participants were solicited directly, and semistructured interviews were conducted via telephone. Interviews were tra

SUBMITTER: Clarke SO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6001505 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature