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November 2001
Volume 65 |
Number 11
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FAER REPORT
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| Announcement of Recent Recipients,
Part III |
Joseph Kras, M.D., D.D.S., Washington University, St.
Louis, Missouri: “Clinical Simulation: An Anesthesia Skills
Assessment Program for Residents.”
The purpose of this study is to test 10 simulated acute perioperative
scenarios that evaluate clinical judgment in critical situations.
Forty residents will participate in six of 10 simulated scenarios
in a single 90-minute individual teaching session. Four faculty
will score each videotaped performance.
The specific aims of this project are 1) to develop a method
to evaluate skills in crisis settings, 2) to assess how residents’
skills in different critical situations generalize among a broad
range of acute care scenarios, 3) to determine how experience
alters performance in acute care situations and 4) to assess the
inter-rater reliability for faculty raters scoring resident performance.
Our long-term goal is to develop an acute care skills curriculum
to teach and evaluate judgment in critical clinical situations.
FAER Welcomes New Director;
Ups the Ante on Grants
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Suzanne T. Anderson
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The Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research
(FAER) Board welcomes a new director who will help in our mission
of developing the next generation of physician scientists. Suzanne
T. Anderson, FAER’s first public member, is currently Vice-President
of Meaghan Jared Partners, Inc., a health care management consulting
firm in Bellevue, Washington. She has extensive experience advising
academic medical centers in staffing models, physician productivity,
financial analysis and compensation, strategic planning, information
systems, governance and organization, ambulatory care and managed
care practices.
She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of
Notre Dame and earned her Masters in Business Administration from
Vanderbilt University. She has served on the review board for
the Health Care Financial Management Journal since 1990. Ms. Anderson
recently completed six years of service as a public member of
the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). She received
the 2001 ABMS Distinguished Service Award for her significant
contribution to the broad field of medical education and specialty
certification. Her dedication to the overall goal of improvement
of patient care through training and evaluations of physicians
has been evidenced in her many contributions. We look forward
to her insights and their benefit to the specialty of anesthesiology.
Please get the message out to apply for FAER grants. The funding
amounts have increased, the grant periods have been lengthened
and participatory mentors are mandatory. By restructuring the
FAER grants, the board sought to create a renewed enthusiasm for
pursuing research in anesthesiology. The Foundation has been encouraging
clinical research and will soon publish requests for proposals
in various areas of interest such as cardiovascular, ambulatory,
pain management, geriatrics, pediatrics, obstetrics, trauma and
critical care as well as biomedical technology. The survival of
our specialty depends on continued knowledge. We must reverse
the downward trend seen in numbers of grant proposals to FAER
and to the National Institutes of Health. Table 1 shows the decrease
in proposals. As this article is submitted, the FAER Board has
not yet heard the recommendations for funding from the review
committees, ASA Committee on Research and the Education Study
Section.
Currently, there are four grants offered through FAER. Table
2 summarizes information about applications reviewed and grants
awarded. Please see the Web site <www.faer.org>
for complete application details.
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Table 1
| Program |
Research Starter
Grant (RSG) |
Research Training
Grant (RTG) |
Research Fellowship
Grant (RFG) |
Research Education
Grant (REG) |
| Purpose |
Support to initiate project for which
investigator will seek further support. |
Allow applicant to become independent
investigator. |
Provide significant training in research
techniques and scientific methods. |
Improve quality and productivity of education
and research in anesthesiology. |
| For Whom |
Instructor or Assistant Professor with
a continuing appointment within 5 years of appointment. |
Instructor or Assistant Professor with
a continuing appointment. |
Anesthesiology Resident after CA-1 training
and 6 months of Clinical Scientist Track. |
Anesthesiology Resident or Faculty |
| % Research Time |
40% |
80% |
80% |
20% |
| Duration |
2 Years |
2 Years |
1 Year |
2 Years |
| Amount |
Yr. 1 $35,000
Yr. 2 $50,000
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Yr. 1 $75,000
Yr. 2 $100,000 |
$50,000 |
$25,000 |
| Deadlines |
February 15 or August 15 |
February 15 or August 15 |
February 15 or August 15 |
February 15 or August 15 |
Table 2
| Year |
Number
of Applications Reviewed
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Number
of Grants Rewarded
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Percent
Funded
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| 1995 |
69
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21
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30%
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| 1996 |
63
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17
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27%
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| 1997 |
60
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19
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32%
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| 1998 |
52
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14
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27%
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| 1999 |
38
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14
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37%
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| 2000 |
38
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11
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29%
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| 2001 |
34
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In process
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N/A
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