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Critical Appraisal of Anesthesiology Educational Research for 2020
Lara Zisblatt1, Rachel Moquin1, Fred Glenn-Roger Ayres1
1The following authors are at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI: is an Education Specialist in the Department of Anesthesiology; is a medical student; is an Assistant Professor and Residency Program Director in the Department of Anesthesiology; is an Informationist in the Taubman Health Sciences Library. is an Assistant Professor and Director of Learning and Development in the Department of Anesthesiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA; is Assistant Dean of Graduate Medical Education and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center, Lexington, KY; is a Medical Education Specialist in the Department of Anesthesiology at Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC; is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.
Background:
This study reviews and appraises the articles published about anesthesiology education in 2020. The objective is to highlight high-quality evidence while showcasing articles with innovative ideas and high relevance to the practices of the anesthesiology education community.
Methods:
Three Ovid MEDLINE databases, Embase.com, ERIC, PsycINFO, and PubMed were searched, followed by a manual review of articles published in the highest impact factor journals in both the fields of anesthesiology and medical education. Abstracts were double screened, and quantitative articles were subsequently scored by 3 randomly assigned raters. Qualitative studies were scored by 2 raters. Two different rubrics were used for scoring quantitative and qualitative studies. In addition, reviewers rated each article on its overall quality to create an additional list of top articles based solely on the opinion of the reviewers.
Results:
A total of 2,491 citations were identified through the search criteria and the manual review. Of those, 61 articles met the inclusion criteria (57 quantitative and 4 qualitative). The top 12 quantitative papers and the top qualitative papers with the highest scores are reported and summarized.
Conclusions:
We found that teaching clinical procedures continues to be a topic of interest, with more studies of improved rigor identified. New trends in wellness studies and increasing attention to distance learning and technology-assisted instructional methods were additional topics covered over the year.
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