• DOI:10.1213/01.ane.0000194874.28870.fd
• Corpus ID: 18816337

Residents' and Program Directors' Attitudes Toward Research During Anesthesiology Training: A Canadian Perspective

@article{Silcox2006ResidentsAP,
  title={Residents' and Program Directors' Attitudes Toward Research During Anesthesiology Training: A Canadian Perspective},
  author={Lisa C Silcox and Ted Ashbury and Elizabeth Vandenkerkhof and Brian Milne},
  journal={Anesthesia \& Analgesia},
  year={2006},
  volume={102},
  pages={859-864}
}

• Lisa C Silcox, T. Ashbury, +1 author B. Milne
• Published 1 March 2006
• Medicine
• Anesthesia & Analgesia

We assessed the attitudes of residents and program directors (PD) toward research training in Canadian anesthesiology residency programs. Questionnaires were sent to all 476 anesthesiology residents in Canada and a modified questionnaire was sent to the PD of each of the 16 anesthesiology programs between November 2003 and April 2004. There was a 60% response rate to the resident questionnaire and 95% from the PDs. Eighty-one percent of programs have mandatory research activity, although only 41% of residents think research should be mandatory. A majority of residents were recently involved in a research project. There was a discrepancy between PDs' and residents' views about the availability of some resources to facilitate research. Residents regard the time needed to learn clinical anesthesia, schedule conflicts, inadequate faculty support, and a lack of protected research time as the top barriers to undertaking a research project. PDs do not consider schedule conflicts or a lack of time as important barriers for resident research. Seventy-five percent of residents would prefer to do another academic activity, such as learning transesophageal echocardiography or taking postgraduate programs in education, rather than completing a research project during their residency.