Research Catalog

Title

Establishing a research and evaluation capability for the joint medical education and training campus / Sheila Nataraj Kirby, Julie A. Marsh, Harry J. Thie.

Author

Kirby, Sheila Nataraj, 1946-

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• Center for Military Health Policy Research
• Marsh, Julie A.
• Rand Corporation
• Thie, Harry
• United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense

Description

xxviii, 101 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.

Summary

In calling for the transformation of military medical education and training, the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommended relocating basic and specialty enlisted medical training to a single site to take advantage of economies of scale and the opportunity for joint training. As a result, a joint medical education and training campus (METC) has been established at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Two of METC's primary long-term goals are to become a high-performing learning organization and to seek accreditation as a community college. Such goals require a clear model of organizational improvement with well-defined metrics for measuring its performance and using research and evaluation to assess and improve that performance. Lessons learned from a review of practices at institutions with similar missions -- such as community colleges, corporate universities, the UK's Defence Medical Education and Training Agency, and other federal agencies, such as the Veterans Health Administration -- establish a clear need for an office of institutional research to help METC attain its organizational goals. They also provide useful recommendations regarding the METC office's structure, scope, and governance.

Series Statement

Rand Corporation monograph series ; MG-981-OSD

Uniform Title

Rand Corporation monograph series MG-981-OSD.

Subject

• Education, Medical
• Ethics Committees, Research > organization & administration
• Institutional review boards (Medicine) > United States
• Medical education > United States
• Medicine, Military > United States
• Military Medicine > education
• Program Evaluation > methods
• United States

Note

• "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-101).

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available electronically.

Contents

Introduction -- Need for a research and evaluation capability : becoming a high-performing organization -- Need for a research and evaluation capability : accreditation requirements -- Structure and scope of an office of institutional research : findings from interviews -- Lessons learned from organizations with training missions similar to that of METC -- Conclusions and recommendations.

ISBN

• 9780833050649
• 0833050648

OCLC

977898948

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Harvard Library