Establishing the research priorities of emergency medicine trainees, patients and carers across the UK and Ireland: the TERN Delphi study

Introduction The Trainee Emergency Research Network (TERN) was established in 2018 by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) to increase research engagement within emergency medicine (EM). The first studies were selected at early TERN meetings and involved over a hundred EDs across the UK and Ireland. It is important for research engagement that trainees are interested in projects they work on. Moreover, research priorities important to clinicians reflect their daily working practice, and differ between junior and senior medical staff.1 We therefore conducted a trainee-specific research prioritisation exercise. Methods A two-stage modified Delphi process was used. In stage 1, all UK and Ireland EM trainees were eligible to submit up to six research priorities using a three-part research question (patient characteristic, intervention proposed, outcome) or ‘PICO’ (population, intervention, control, outcome) format where applicable. The survey was open for 4 weeks in November 2020 using...

Source: Emergency Medicine Journal - March 20, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Hirst, R., Carlton, E., Reed, M. J., Trainee Emergency Research Network (TERN), Brookes, Connelly, Cottey, Elwan, Fadhlillah, Gwatkin, Lindsay, Naeem, Rahman, Reynard, Sabir, Tilbury, Umana, Oppen, Ward, Weegenaar Tags: Research letter Source Type: research