Enhancing the Professional Culture of Academic Health Science Centers: Creating and Sustaining Research Communities

Enhancing the Professional Culture of Academic Health Science Centers: Creating and Sustaining Research Communities

Enhancing the Professional Culture of Academic Health Science Centers: Creating and Sustaining Research Communities

Article Type: Recent publications From: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 26, Issue 3

Thomas Inui and Richard FrankelRadcliffe PublishingMilton KeynesNovember 2012ISBN 978-1-84-619523-5

Keywords: Research communities in healthcare, Healthcare education and healthcare improvement, Research activities and academic health science centers

The future of basic and translational research in healthcare depends on the ability of large, complex health science centers to educate, discover new answers to complex problems and operate in the service of the public good.

So what ingredients are required for successful research in academic health science centers? This volume presents a number of compelling, international stories about personal and professional investments in research activities as well as the challenges, opportunities and satisfactions.

Each chapter explores concepts for successful research with a focus on the ways communities of practice form and sustain themselves in this complex environment. They explore questions such as creating and sustaining community, promoting innovation, transitions in leadership and cross-generation collaboration from a personal perspective. They also present a series of portraits of scientists at work; building relationships, supporting one another and contributing to their fields of study in unique ways.

Enhancing the Professional Culture of Academic Health Science Centers offers enlightening reading for researchers, administrators and policy makers interested in the present and future of research activities in academic health science centers who will be inspired by narratives of perseverance, passion, generosity and generativity that fuel research in academic health science centers.

Contents include:

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  What’s the story? A composite narrative of success in science in academic health science centers.

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  Challenges and ingredients for success in the health science enterprise: a view from two corner offices.

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  Breaking out of the silos in the heartland: making a clinical and translational science award program sing in Indiana.

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  Sparking and sustaining the essential functions of research: what supports translation of research into health care? Answers from the group health experience.

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  Sparking and sustaining the essential functions of research: what promotes discovery? Experience and insights from a medical school in China.

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  Sparking and sustaining the essential functions of research: how the seeds were sown and grown at a summer camp for young clinicians.

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  Sparking and sustaining the essential functions of research: cultivating “research mind” – reason, dreams, and discovery.

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  The relationship-centered care research network: its birth, life-cycle, and lessons learned along the way.

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  Successful aging in research.