The importance of clinical outcomes in medical education research

Medical education research remains the poor relation

“…3 She was critical about the quality, rigour, and generalisability of most of these studies. Her concerns were echoed last year by Chen and colleagues, 5 Research into medical education is stagnating and urgently needs the resources to become more rigorous and relevant say mathew todres, Anne Stephenson, and roger Jones medical education research remains the poor relation ANALYSIS funding obtained was $15 000 (£7700; €11 500) with an interquartile range of $5000 to $66 500. 6 Private foundations, as opposed to federal institutions, were the most common source of these research grants.…”

Teaching brief motivational interviewing to Year three medical students

“…Although we used statistical modelling procedures to estimate the missing data, the actual follow‐up data for half the sample were unknown and could have altered our findings. Future research evaluating the effectiveness of behaviour change counselling skill development among medical students should include control comparison groups, longer follow‐up assessment with improved retention rates, carefully coded samples of students' skills using well validated coding measures and real patient encounters, and should attempt to link BMI proficiency to specific patient behavioural change targets 25 …”

Effects of 2- vs 4-Week Attending Physician Inpatient Rotations on Unplanned Patient Revisits, Evaluations by Trainees, and Attending Physician Burnout

“…If so, direct testing of trainees' skills and behaviors would be a more relevant measure of attending physician teaching performance than trainees' perceptions. 9 In addition, to maximize uncovering important effects of rotation duration, future trials should consider patient-level outcomes that are both more reflective of care quality and more vulnerable to extra attending physician handoffs, such as preventable adverse events, patient treatment adherence, and patient satisfaction. 43,44 As shown in this study (eTable 5) and as others have reported, 45 the variability of both 30-day unplanned revisits and lengths of hospital stay are determined more by patient-level than physician-level factors.…”