Resources

Medical Education Outcomes Center (MEOC)

• MEOC can be helpful with research/survey design questions in a consultative manner, with data acquisition from existing databases, and with data analysis. 

• It's always most helpful to residents if they have an identified faculty mentor who can guide/assist through the life of the resident project.

• MEOC is most helpful if projects are focused on a medical education research question in some context.

• The sooner that residents reach out, the better chance of success in terms of MEOC capacity to assist.

Office of Measurement Services

• Typically, in a situation like this, I would recommend a single-sided non-scannable paper survey, that could be easily duplicated on any copy machine.   Single-sided is better, because it is easier to use on a clipboard than something that is printed double-sided and has to be rearranged every time you turn the page.

• Questionnaire design takes 30 - 60 hours, depending on the length of the survey, the number of questions, and the number of revisions needed.  If you provide a draft of the survey, that generally reduces the cost.  The OMS billing rate for this type of consulting is estimated to be $123.50/hour for the fiscal year that starts July 1, 2021.

• OMS can also provide the services that will be needed when the surveys are completed, including coding/editing, transcription of open-ended responses, data entry with verification, and setting up an analysis-ready SPSS data file.  The cost to provide these services would depend on the number of completed surveys, and the length of the survey (# of questions or # of pages).  If you could tell me what to assume, I could give you an estimate for these services as well.

• The cost would not vary between faculty and resident doctors. Our costs vary depending on if our client is an internal university client or external to the university.

• For the scenario you described if our office is just advising on questionnaire design I would roughly estimate from around $100-$500. The range and costs of a project can really vary depending on the scope of the project. We have large-scale projects that our office consults on, creates the survey, administers the survey, conducts data analysis from A-Z, and some projects where our office only handles small pieces of the projects. 

• For any time/service that we would be working on we would have to charge for our time.