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An Innovative Strategy for Conducting Clinical Research: The Academic Associate Program
Author(s) -
Hollander Judd E.,
Singer Adam J.
Publication year - 2002
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 - 10.1197/aemj.9.2.134
Subject(s) - medicine , procurement , variety (cybernetics) , productivity , quality (philosophy) , clinical research , medical education , research program , engineering management , marketing , computer science , business , philosophy , epistemology , pathology , artificial intelligence , economics , engineering , macroeconomics
Performance of high‐quality clinical research usually requires procurement of substantial funding to support and sustain the research infrastructure. The authors have developed a program to support a research infrastructure that minimizes financial start‐up costs and maximizes productivity of clinical‐educator faculty with limited protected time. The program integrates clinical research with undergraduate education. The authors report the experience with the academic associate program at two academic institutions. They describe the program, provide measures of program success, and discuss potential methods for other institutions to initiate similar programs. Similar programs can be developed in a variety of outpatient and inpatient settings allowing the performance of high‐quality clinical research in a time‐efficient and cost‐effective manner.