Journal Article
Medical education research at the crossroads
Margery H. Davis & Gominda G. Ponnamperuma
February 2006
The Lancet Journal, Volume 367, Issue 9508, Pages 377 – 378
Recently, Darcy Reed and colleagues provided information about costs and funding for published medical education research. Their paper highlights the lack of formal—external rather than institutional—funding for medical education research, and substantial underfunding because of underestimation of costs by researchers: “If authors cannot accurately estimate the costs of their studies after the fact, they will probably not be able to appropriately budget for proposed future studies.”