TY - JOUR
AU - Friedman, Susan Hatters
AB - Objectives:This article describes components of a workshop designed to orientate psychiatric trainees to the task of conducting a scholarly project. The aims are: to promote an approach that incorporates principles of adult learning to guide trainees who are undertaking research; to allow trainees to transform their ideas into more tangible research questions; and to enable supervisors to reflect on delivering similar content in scholarly project workshops.Methods:The workshop comprised: creating a safe space to explore ideas; discussing the process of posing a question or hypothesis; using group interactions to generate concepts; and considering personal values that influence the choice of research methodology to answer a question.Results:Examples are provided from the workshop. The process enabled trainees to generate and distil ideas into more concrete questions and methods in three phases: introductory, exploratory and tangible.Conclusions:Adult learning principles may assist trainees to develop their ideas for a scholarly project into research questions that are relevant to clinical practice. Harnessing the creative potential of a peer collective may encourage deeper inquiry, shifts to a tangible output and a sustained interest in research.
TI - Transforming an idea into a scholarly project
JF - Australasian Psychiatry
DO - 10.1177/1039856217751985
DA - 2018-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/transforming-an-idea-into-a-scholarly-project-HlLTms02os
SP - 210
EP - 213
VL - 26
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -