Benefits of an Orthopedic Education Research Collaborative: An Innovative Approach

Cureus (02/12/2023) Levitt, Eli B.; Paul, Kyle D.; Vatsia, Sohrab K.; et al.

Researchers evaluated the potential benefits of an orthopedic education research collaborative by surveying orthopedic residency faculty around the United States. Of the 74 responses, program directors accounted for 84% of the responses. A collaborative would be augment resident education and faculty development, according to most (99%) of the orthopedic faculty leaders, and residency leaders expressed support for it. Respondents called survey fatigue the most common challenge of current orthopedic education research, followed by election bias and failure to apply findings to other programs from single-institution data. Most faculty cited insufficient time as hindering resident education or faculty development research. The majority recommended an incentivization framework with shared authorship if International Committee of Medical Journal Editors authorship criteria were satisfied. The authors suggest that a multi-institutional collaborative "can develop high-quality studies that capture a representative sample to support orthopedic surgery program development."

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