Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Apply the standards of scholarship to critique their own academic work
2. Explain the components of a good research question
3. Summarize the trade-offs between rigor and feasibility
4. Appraise the appropriate goals for a pilot research project

Faculty

Peter Friedmann, MD
Chief Research Officer, Baystate Health
Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Medicine
UMMS-Baystate 

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.