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Clinicians-in-training are encouraged to author HDAs with faculty co-authors.
“EBP offers a great forum to critically examine the evidence and eliminate the spin. Clinicians should be able to decide for themselves the appropriateness of therapeutic decisions. EBP provides tools for doing just that.”
--Rex Force, PharmD, EBP subscriber and contributor
Idaho State University
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Who can write an HDA?
Community-based and Academic clinicians who are part of a family medicine residency program may write HDAs. The FPIN community of authors includes faculty, residents, medical and pharmacy students, and allied healthcare providers associated with family medicine residencies. Faculty members write HDAs individually or with faculty co-authors. Resident and students (medical and pharmacy) must have a faculty co-author. Librarians assisting with the evidence-based research are included as authors on HDAs.
What is an HDA? What is the time commitment?
HDAs are tightly written research articles (500 to 600 words), providing evidence-based answers to clinical questions in a defined structured format. HDAs provide information from 3 to 5 of the most current and reliable patient-oriented citations in the evidence summary. All HDAs go through external peer review and Editorial Review, before publication. Authors also prepare a CME question for inclusion in the monthly CME test in Evidence-Based Practice (EBP), when the HDA is published.
First time authors report taking 18 to 24 hours over a 10-12 week period to complete HDAs. Experienced EBM authors complete the project in approximately 10 to 12 hours. For a graphic depiction of the HDA timeline, click here. The estimated time commitment includes completing the following key tasks:
Week 1: Search the literature for best evidence.
Week 2: Grade the evidence and write the evidence-based answer.
Week 3 – 8: Draft the manuscript and review/revise with co-author.
Week 9 – 12: Revise the manuscript based on peer review comments. Work with the EBP Editor-in-Chief to refine the manuscript for publication.
Publication in EBP occurs approximately 90 days after final approval by the Editor-in-Chief.
Why write HDAs?
- Sharpen evidence-based medicine (EBM) skills.
- Receive publication credit in a family medicine journal.
- Improve general writing and research skills.
- Refine mentoring skills.
- Meet RRC scholarly research and writing requirements.
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