Expanding EBM and Research across the Palmer College of Chiropractic

描述（由申请人提供）：脊医持有的信念，研究和循证医学（EBM）是重要的技能，谁学会了定义和提出临床相关的问题，并找到和批判性地解释科学文献，将最好地准备使用证据，以改善他们的临床实践。然而，大多数教师在Palmer College of Chiropractic（PCC）没有受过研究和循证医学的培训，课程没有有效地整合和加强整个脊椎按摩医生（DC）计划的概念。大多数教师不从事研究，因此没有准备好教授研究的价值。我们建议，以满足国家中心的补充和替代医学计划“CAM从业者研究教育项目资助合作伙伴关系”的目标，正式增加CAM机构的研究内容。我们正在与两个高度重视的传统机构，爱荷华州和托马斯杰斐逊大学的大学合作，制定和实施4个具体目标。我们将大大扩大在帕尔默中心的脊椎按摩研究的专业知识，帕尔默计划的其余部分。第一个目标是提高教师的态度，增加教师的知识和技能，循证医学的原则和教育。我们将制定和实施循证医学培训计划。二是提高学生对循证医学原则的认识和态度。我们将把循证医学原则的培训纳入课程的DC计划。第三个目标是培训和支持教师和学生通过建立在我们现有的K30支持的临床研究计划和扩大其他计划进行临床研究。最后，对于第四个目标，我们将评估教师和学生的态度，知识和技能的变化有关循证医学原则和评估帕尔默的培训和支持学生和教师参与临床研究的变化。长期目标是使PCC的研究和EBM的态度，知识和技能制度化，并为其他CAM专业建立模型。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Chiropractors holding the belief that research and evidence-based medicine (EBM) are important skills, who have learned to define and pose clinically relevant questions and locate and critically interpret scientific literature, will be best prepared to use evidence to improve their clinical practice. However, most of the faculty at Palmer College of Chiropractic (PCC) are not trained in research and EBM and the curriculum does not effectively integrate and reinforce the concepts throughout the Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) program. Most faculty do not engage in research and are therefore ill-prepared to teach the value of research. We propose to meet the goals of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Program "CAM Practitioner Research Education Project Grant Partnership" to formally increase the research content in CAM institutions. We are partnering with two highly regarded conventional institutions, the University of Iowa and Thomas Jefferson University, to develop and implement 4 specific aims. We will significantly expand the expertise at the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research to the rest of the Palmer program. The first aim is to enhance faculty attitudes and increase faculty knowledge and skills regarding EBM principles and education. We will develop and implement an EBM training program. The second aim is to enhance students' attitudes and increase students' knowledge and sills regarding EBM principles. We will incorporate EBM principles training into the curriculum for the DC program. The third aim is to train and support faculty and students to conduct clinical research by building on our existing K30-supported Clinical Research program and expanding other programs. Finally, for the fourth aim we will evaluate changes in faculty and student attitudes, knowledge and skills concerning EBM principles and assess changes in Palmer's training and support for student and faculty involvement in clinical research. The long-range goal is to institutionalize the attitudes, knowledge and skills of research and EBM at PCC, and to model the process for other CAM professions.