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ArticleMedical education online2016

Applying the institutional review board data repository approach to manage ethical considerations in evaluating and studying medical education.

Erin K Thayer, Daniel Rathkey, Marissa Fuqua Miller, Ryan Palmer, George C Mejicano, Martin Pusic, Adina Kalet, Colleen Gillespie, Patricia A Carney

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Article in Medical education online, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Erin K ThayerDepartment of Family Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA; thayer@ohsu.edu.
Daniel RathkeyDepartment of Family Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
Marissa Fuqua MillerDepartment of Family Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
Ryan PalmerDepartment of Family Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
George C MejicanoDepartment of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
Martin PusicDivision of Learning Analytics, Institute for Innovations in Medical Education, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Adina KaletMedical Education Outcomes Unit, Program for Medical Education Innovation and Research, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Colleen GillespieDivision of Evaluation and Outcomes, Institute for Innovations in Medical Education, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Patricia A CarneyDepartment of Family Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

issueMedical educators and educational researchers continue to improve their processes for managing medical student and program evaluation data using sound ethical principles. This is becoming even more important as curricular innovations are occurring across undergraduate and graduate medical education. Dissemination of findings from this work is critical, and peer-reviewed journals often require an institutional review board (IRB) determination. APPROACH: IRB data repositories, originally designed for the longitudinal study of biological specimens, can be applied to medical education research. The benefits of such an approach include obtaining expedited review for multiple related studies within a single IRB application and allowing for more flexibility when conducting complex longitudinal studies involving large datasets from multiple data sources and/or institutions. In this paper, we inform educators and educational researchers on our analysis of the use of the IRB data repository approach to manage ethical considerations as part of best practices for amassing, pooling, and sharing data for educational research, evaluation, and improvement purposes. IMPLICATIONS: Fostering multi-institutional studies while following sound ethical principles in the study of medical education is needed, and the IRB data repository approach has many benefits, especially for longitudinal assessment of complex multi-site data.

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Databases, FactualEducation, MedicalEthics, ResearchConfidentialityEthics Committees, ResearchHumansLongitudinal StudiesProgram EvaluationResearch Designeducational researchethical reviewlongitudinal assessmentprogram evaluation

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PMID27443407
PMCPMC4956727

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