Optional Add-On Experiences
MERC: Medical Education Research Certificate Program
Questionnaire Design and Survey Research
Facilitator: TBD
Location: Hempstead, N.Y. (NEGEA Meeting)
April 26, 2018
9 a.m.-12 p.m.
This workshop will provide some basic principles in questionnaire/survey design and give workshop participants an opportunity for hands-on experience designing a questionnaire. Following participating in this workshop, learners will be able to:
- Design a blueprint for a survey/questionnaire appropriate to their own application;
- Construct and edit questions to avoid common problems in wording and framing;
- Select an appropriate response format from a menu of alternatives;
- Design the overall format of the survey/questionnaire to facilitate data management and analysis.
Scholarly Writing: Publishing Medical Education Research
Facilitator: TBD
Location: Hempstead, N.Y. (NEGEA Meeting)
April 26, 2018
1 - 4 p.m.
In this session, the skills of scholarly writing will be explored through the lens of analyzing a manuscript that was accepted for publication. The participants will examine review criteria that are used by healthcare education journals and apply them to a sample manuscript. In discussing scholarly writing the participants will make a decision about the type of feedback they would give to the authors of the sample paper. At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify the components of a scholarly publication;
- Discuss how to frame a problem statement;
- Identify an effective Research Question;
- Discuss whether the Design/method is appropriate to the question;
- Discuss whether the authors have applied the best data collection methods to the appropriate sample;
- Understand the Results section and how to present results in a clear manner.