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Supporting Emergency Medicine Research: Developing the Infrastructure
Author(s) -
Biros Michelle H.,
Barsan William G.,
Lewis Roger J.,
Sanders Arthur B.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1998.tb02606.x
Subject(s) - specialty , medicine , enthusiasm , order (exchange) , quality (philosophy) , emergency department , health care , process (computing) , medical emergency , medical education , nursing , family medicine , business , political science , psychology , social psychology , philosophy , finance , epistemology , computer science , law , operating system
The long‐term goals of developing research within the specialty of emergency medicine (EM) include the following: 1) to continue to improve the quality and quantity of EM research in order to ultimately improve emergency patient care; 2) to maximize the research potential of emergency health care professionals in order to develop new emergency research talent and enthusiasm; and 3) to establish the academic research credentials of the specialty of EM in order to become competitive for federal research funding, and further improve emergency patient care. This article addresses the process by which the infrastructure for EM research can be developed at academic medical centers and provides recommendations. The roles of the academic chair, research director, senior researcher, and departmental faculty are discussed.