Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Emergency physicians (EPs) have long been de-facto providers of trauma resuscitation and critical care in academic and community hospital settings, and are significantly involved in out-of-hospital trauma care and trauma research. A one-year fellowship has been developed and implemented to provide advanced training in trauma resuscitation and critical care to EPs with a special interest in the field. This fellowship provides additional depth and breadth of training to prepare graduates for leadership roles in academic and specialized trauma centers. This is the first fellowship of its kind for EPs, and may serve as a model for fellowships at other institutions.
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To examine perceptions of nurse-physician collaboration and research utilization in a large, county medical center with an emergency medicine (EM) residency program, to assess differences among nurses, residents, and attending physicians, and to explore the relationship between collaboration and research utilization. ⋯ Interdisciplinary collaboration showed some significance in promoting research use in the ED, especially for physicians. However, nurse-physician differences in perceptions of collaboration and research use should be examined more fully.
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To determine the perceptions of emergency medicine (EM) academic faculty leaders and other academic emergency physicians regarding importance and knowledge of specific research methodology content areas and training priorities. ⋯ These data support the continued need to offer broad training in research methodology, but suggest that greater emphasis be given to concepts involved in initiating and planning a study and to strengthening research proposal writing skills. These results should be of interest to academic departments who must address their own training needs, and help support the development of research methodology curricula on regional and national levels to advance the state of research in the specialty of EM.