Research Literacy Basics: Practical Applications for the Hospital-Based Practitioner

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Review of Research Basics and the Practical Applications (at your job) as a Healthcare Clinician

A Resource Page for the Acupuncturist in Hospital-Based Practice 

Also useful information for any acupuncturist interested in presenting their professional work at a conference, in a peer-reviewed journal, or to other healthcare providers working in a healthcare system

Interested in research or in submitting your hard work to a peer-reviewed journal but haven't been successful yet or not sure where to start?

• Here are some resources for reviewing some important research literacy basics in the field of integrative health and especially in the field of acupuncture and East Asian medicine
• You can find more resources by following these keywords or tags in the blog: research literacy and metrics

Are you looking to connect with a mentor to guide you through becoming a clinician-researcher? 

• Contact me via the website with your query and I will endeavor to connect you to the current resource(s) for this and order the First Steps resources from the website.

Reviewing the Basics

What is Well-Designed Research?

• "How to Identify and Assess Well-Designed Trial Research", a resource post from the Society of Acupuncture Research (SAR)

On Writing a Scientific Paper

• A good review of scientific writing basics in this 8-page resource, "Five Studies on Scientific Writing" from Jennifer A.M. Stone. She reviews the following sections of a paper, with references for more study: abstract, introduction, materials and methods, and discussion. It also has a good explanation of how to structure your argument with the "inverted pyramid" mnemonic.
• This article is a good review with specific information on the practice of acupuncture and East Asian medicine.
• “Writing a Solid Scientific Paper That Will Sail Through the Peer Review Process:  Valuable tricks from the experts” by Jennifer A.M. Stone, LAc, pages 30-35 of Meridians: The Journal of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, spring 2018. 
• 1.03.2020 additions: 
• Notes on formatting your research paper from the journal Nature: "How Small Changes to a Paper Can Help to Smooth the Review Process" by Michael White
• Improve your research and science writing with "Tips on How to Write a Great Science Paper" from novelist Cormac McCarthy, an article from the journal Nature

Posters and Poster Presentations

• Posters, "Poster Day at the Hospital", and Poster Presentations: Tips for Better Communication via your poster
•  For healthcare professionals, presenting your work in a poster is very common whether at a research conference, your state professional association’s conference, or (as a hospital-based practitioner) your local facility’s “poster day”.
• "A Poster is Worth a Thousand Words: Tips for Presenting Posters" with Karen Friedman, ReachMD. audio and video. 
• More information on posters and poster presentations specific to the field of acupuncture and integrative health at JASA’s website:
• Scientific Posters with Jennifer Stone
• “Preparing and Presenting Effective Research Posters” by Jane E. Miller
• UNC Graduate School’s resource page on posters and presentations
• Author Research Resources
• how to write a paper, how to write a pilot study, how to write a good abstract for a paper or conference presentation, what CONSORT and STRICTA guidelines are, how to write an effective title and abstract, and many resources for writing case reports (including CARE guidelines) 

For more on the topic of research

• follow the tag/labels in this blog for: "research literacy" and "metrics"
• The Integrative Medicine Researcher
• Research Thursdays: Oncology
• Resource: The Massage Therapy Foundation
• Dr. Helene Langevin, NCCIH, and acupuncture research
• The Teaching Kitchen Collaborative and Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives
• The FDA Roadmap on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (video series)
• Research Journal Resources for Authors Page by JASA, formerly Meridians JAOM
• Articles related to the Hospital Practice Handbook Project that have been published in peer-reviewed journals can be found on our publications page. 

Other monthly research summary blogposts

• August Research Roundup
• April Research Roundup
• March Research Roundup
• February Research Roundup
• January Research Roundup
• December Research Roundup

Research Review posts

• Acupuncture and Fascia Research
• Key Papers when discussion acupuncture for pain management with a physician
• The Field of Acupuncture Research in Just 10 minutes (video)

Related Subjects

• Grand Rounds
• Project ECHO of the University of New Mexico, a unique telehealth/teleseminar wisdom-share program for hospital-based practitioners in specialty care (IPMCs, any specialty on the ECHO lineup) and rural primary care health centers
• Shadowing Physicians

Research Resource Websites & Journals

• Journal of the American Society of Acupuncturists (JASA), formerly Meridians: Journal of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
• Evidence-Based Acupuncture (EBA)
• Society of Acupuncture Research (SAR) is associated with 
• The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (JACM): Paradigm, Practice, and Policy Advancing Integrative Health

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