AAMC Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC)
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AAMC Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) Contact: Judy A. Shea, Ph.D Email: sheaja@mail.med.upenn.edu Target Academic Audience Seniority Level: all Learning environment: In-person Cost: variable Location: US The MERC program focuses on medical education research focus. Participants must complete six 3hr workshops to receive MERC upon completion. Cost is variable as workshops are hosted at different institutions/conferences. Ideal for clinicians and other educators with a background in medical education but with less experience in educational research. The workshops focus on the following topics: data management and basic statistics in educational research, formulating research questions and designing studies, hypothesis-driven research, institutional review boards and research ethics, measuring educational outcomes with reliability and validity, overview of qualitative data collection methods, program evaluation and evaluation research, qualitative analysis methods in medical education, questionnaire design and survey research, and searching and evaluating the medical education literature. |