title: Overcoming barriers to addressing education problems with research design: a panel discussion.
abstract: A plenary panel session at the 2012 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference "Education Research in Emergency Medicine: Opportunities, Challenges, and Strategies for Success" discussed barriers educators face in imagining, designing, and implementing studies to address educational challenges. This proceedings article presents a general approach to getting started in education research. Four examples of studies from the medical education literature that illustrate a distinct way to approach specific research questions are discussed. The study designs used are applicable to a variety of education research problems in emergency medicine (EM). Potential applications of studies are discussed, as well as effects and lessons learned.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA. yarrisl@ohsu.edu
authors.forename: Lalena M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Yarris
authors.forename: Larry D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Gruppen
authors.forename: Stanley J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Hamstra
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Anders Ericsson
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Cook
mesh_terms: D003245:Consensus Statements as Topic; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D012107:Research Design