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ECONOMICS, EDUCATION, AND HEALTH SYSTEMS RESEARCH

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

Queen's University, Department of Anesthesiology, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Address correspondence to Ted Ashbury, MD, FRCPC, Department of Anesthesiology, Queen's University, Kingston General Hospital, 76 Stuart St., Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 2V7. Address e-mail to ashburyt{at}kgh.kari.net.

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.

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