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GEA/MERC (Medical Education Research Certificate) Workshop Overviews
The Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) program
is designed to provide a basic foundation in research principles relevant
to educational research in medical education.
Each MERC workshop requires pre-registration and a $30.00
registration fee.
Register early online; workshops tend to fill up fast.
Following are detailed descriptions of each MERC workshop
and the faculty involved.
No paper copies of MERC workshop sessions will be available
to constituents.
Sunday, November 4 |
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8:00 - 10:30a |
GEA/GSA Mini-Workshop Session
MERC - Questionnaire Design and Survey Research
Patricia O'Sullivan, PhD
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
This workshop introduces participants to fundamental
principles of educational program evaluation, and provides participants
with a strategy for developing an evaluation plan.
At the end of the workshop participants will be able
to:
1. Describe program evaluation and its purposes;
2. Identify barriers to program evaluation;
3. Identify models used in evaluation;
4. Describe the steps of an evaluation;
5. Develop an evaluation plan.
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Marriott Wardman Park
Virginia C |
Tuesday, November 6 |
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1:00 - 4:00p |
GEA/GSA Mini-Workshop Session
MERC - Qualitative Research Methods
Organizer and Faculty:
Ilene B. Harris, PhD
University of Illinois College of Medicine
This workshop provides participants with an overview
of the purposes, uses, and standards for rigor of qualitative research
methods; and provides an opportunity for skill development in design
of a small qualitative study and analysis of qualitative data.
At the end of the workshop, participants will be able
to:
1. Describe the purposes and uses of qualitative methods
in medical education;
2. Characterize the paradigms, research designs, data collection
methods and types of data associated with qualitative research methods;
3. Analyze qualitative data, by identifying themes in data sets;
4. Apply standards for rigor to evaluate qualitative evaluation
or research studies;
5. Design a small qualitative study.
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Marriott Wardman Park
Balcony B |
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1:00 - 4:00p |
GEA/GSA Mini-Workshop Session
MERC - Formulating Research Questions and Designing Studies
Organizer and Faculty:
Ernie Yoder, MD, PhD, FACP
Providence Hospital and Medical Centers
Description: In this workshop, participants will
brainstorm research ideas, write, and refine a measurable research
question. They will discuss when IRB approval is required for their
study. The basics of research design will be discussed and applied
to their selected research question.
Participants will be able to:
1. Write a FINER (feasible, interesting, novel, ethical,
relevant) educational research question;
2. Specify an educational research area of interest;
3. Evaluate whether they need IRB approval for their study; " Select
the correct design for their research question.
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Marriott Wardman Park
Balcony C |
Wednesday, November 7 |
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8:00 - 11:00a |
GEA/GSA Mini-Workshop Session
MERC- Program Evaluation and Evaluation Research
Organizers and Faculty:
Linda C Perkowski, PhD
University of Minnesota Medical School
Britta Thompson, PhD
Description: This workshop will provide some
basic principles in questionnaire/survey design and give workshop
participants an opportunity for hands-on experience designing a
questionnaire. Following participation in this workshop, learners
will be able to:
1. Design a blueprint for a survey/questionnaire appropriate
to their own application;
2. Construct and edit questions to avoid common problems in question
wording and framing;
3. Select an appropriate response format from a menu of alternatives;
4. Design the overall format of the survey/questionnaire to facilitate
data management and analysis.
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Marriott Wardman Park
Wilson B |
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1:00 - 4:00p |
GEA/GSA Mini-Workshop Session
MERC - Institutional Review Boards and Research Ethics
Brian Mavis, Ph.D
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Description: This workshop provides an overview
of how research questions and information sources common to medical
education research are related to the need for Internal Review Board
(IRB) review. In addition, the workshop provides a brief history
of the development of IRBs and an overview of the basic concepts
and definitions guiding IRB review. Workshop participants will be
able to: Decide when an educational innovation requires IRB review;
Identify characteristics of educational research that are of concern
to IRBs; Decide when asking for "exemption" is a viable strategy;
Address informed consent requirements for educational research;
Negotiate the process for obtaining IRB approval of educational
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Marriott Wardman Park
Coolidge |
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