Exploring the Journey of Clinician to Clinician Researcher

Abstract

Date Presented 04/04/19 This descriptive study examined the experience of OT and PT clinicians involved in research. Needs, supports, and barriers were identified for involvement in research. Strategies were discovered to enhance the development of clinical researchers. This new knowledge can foster the preparation of more OT clinician researchers, ensuring achievement of Vision 2025, enhancing effective solutions for participation in everyday life by creating evidence for practice, and improving outcomes. Primary Author and Speaker: Elizabeth Ridgway Additional Authors and Speakers: Carol Terilli, Tim Conly, Joanne Hunt, Donna Kelly, Roseann Schaaf

The Clinician Scientist: How Rehabilitation Fares ―A Scoping Review

“…Thus, a CS is not only developing their clinical practice whilst simultaneously developing and implementing clinically relevant research questions, but also securing ongoing funding to support their research activities [75]. Although the literature is scarce on CS funding models there is a suggestion that using potential reserved institutional funding and administrative support is a potential approach to enable funding in research teams [12,19,20,55,91,54]. To ensure the ongoing development of the CS role in rehabilitation science and medicine establishing secure funding sources are clearly critical.…”

“…However, the medicine-related literature suggests that many CSs bias their workday towards clinical practice which is likely related to ensuring a consistent income or promotional opportunities, but maybe also due to personal bias towards clinical care [72,20,35,85]. Thus, ensuring appropriate resources such that a CS can maintain and balance clinical practice with research enquiry is essential to the future development of the CS in rehabilitation science [12].…”

“…Mentorship opportunities were identified as a primary facilitator both in the medicine and rehabilitation-related literature. CS mentors are essential in fostering the development of the CS profession [46], with networking, collaboration and research experience being critical features of this process [12,66]. It is also suggested that CS mentors can assist in navigating the realm of research and clinical practice as well as the balance between personal life and career [12, 3, 18 -20, 108].…”