Translational educational research: a necessity for effective health-care improvement Journal Article

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Authors: McGaghie, W. C.; Issenberg, S. B.; Cohen, E. R.; Barsuk, J. H.; Wayne, D. B.
Article Title: Translational educational research: a necessity for effective health-care improvement
Abstract: Medical education research contributes to translational science (TS) when its outcomes not only impact educational settings, but also downstream results, including better patient-care practices and improved patient outcomes. Simulation-based medical education (SBME) has demonstrated its role in achieving such distal results. Effective TS also encompasses implementation science, the science of health-care delivery. Educational, clinical, quality, and safety goals can only be achieved by thematic, sustained, and cumulative research programs, not isolated studies. Components of an SBME TS research program include motivated learners, curriculum grounded in evidence-based learning theory, educational resources, evaluation of downstream results, a productive research team, rigorous research methods, research resources, and health-care system acceptance and implementation. National research priorities are served from translational educational research. National funding priorities should endorse the contribution and value of translational education research.
Journal Title: Chest
Volume: 142
Issue: 5
ISSN: 1931-3543; 0012-3692
Publisher: Unknown  
Journal Place: United States
Date Published: 2012
Start Page: 1097
End Page: 1103
Language: eng
DOI/URL:

10.1378/chest.12-0148

10.1378/chest.12-0148
Notes: ID: 12712; LR: 20130416; GR: UL 1 RR 025741/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States; JID: 0231335; OID: NLM: PMC3494468 [Available on 11/01/13]; PMCR: 2013/11/01 00:00; ppublish