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      Research Associates Program: Expanding clinical research productivity with undergraduate students

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          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 Associates Program. The primary outcomes were number of Emergency Medicine Research Associates Program–related studies, number of enrolled patients, extramural/intramural funding, abstract presentations, and peer-reviewed publications. The authors analyzed the data using descriptive statistics.

          Results:

          Over the 10-year period, 110 Emergency Medicine Research Associates Program–assisted research studies were conducted, with research associates enrolling 46,219 patients. These studies yielded a total of 31 peer-reviewed publications and 77 abstract presentations (13 international, 27 national, 37 state/regional). The Emergency Medicine Research Associates Program–related studies were used as pilot studies to obtain US$1,751,036 in extramural grant funding and US$31,047 in intramural grant funding.

          Conclusion:

          The implementation of Emergency Medicine Research Associates Program can enhance emergency department clinical research productivity, and the inclusion of supplemental academic programs enhanced the undergraduate students’ research experience.

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              Clinical research: perceptions, reality, and proposed solutions. National Institutes of Health Director's Panel on Clinical Research.

              The proportion of investigators applying for clinical research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who are physicians has declined from 40% 30 years ago to 25% today. To recommend NIH policy changes that might encourage physician investigators to undertake careers in clinical research, eg, patient-oriented research, epidemiologic and behavioral studies, outcomes research, and health services research. The NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research comprised 14 physicians from academia and industry, chosen by the director. They met in numerous closed sessions and in 5 public meetings from July 1995 to November 1997. In addition to expert opinion and pertinent literature, data sources included the training characteristics of applicants to NIH who were funded or not. Topics considered included financing of clinical research, recruitment, training, and retention of future clinical investigators, conduct of clinical trials, and peer review of clinical research. Consensus was reached and recommendations were made in response to an interim report, widely circulated to the biomedical community, written by members of the panel, which contained preliminary recommendations. The panel's final recommendations to NIH included maintaining at least the present proportion of NIH funding for clinical research; continuing mentored opportunities in clinical research for medical students; promoting clinical research training by offering didactic courses and grant opportunities in clinical research to nascent investigators emerging from specialty training programs and providing partial salary support for mentors; restructuring study sections that review patient-oriented research applications to include more physicians; encouraging clinical investigators and basic scientists to work closely together and weld collaborations between academic clinical investigators and colleagues in pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies; and developing a joint policy between academic health centers and NIH for the support of clinical research and clinical research training.
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                Journal
                SAGE Open Med
                SAGE Open Med
                SMO
                spsmo
                SAGE Open Medicine
                SAGE Publications (Sage UK: London, England )
                2050-3121
                11 September 2017
                2017
                : 5
                : 2050312117730245
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA, USA
                [2 ]School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
                [3 ]College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
                [4 ]Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center, Oakland, CA, USA
                Author notes
                [*]Wirachin Hoonpongsimanont, Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, 101 The City Drive South, Mail Code 4064, Orange, CA 92868, USA. Email: whoonpon@ 123456uci.edu
                Article
                10.1177_2050312117730245
                10.1177/2050312117730245
                5598797
                28932396
                975653a4-8c72-4e38-b6c1-a43b2a774ca2
                © The Author(s) 2017

                This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License ( http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page( https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

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                : 11 May 2017
                : 9 August 2017
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                January-December 2017

                research associates,research productivity,research program,undergraduate,emergency department,funding

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