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Reply to "Trauma-informed Care Competencies Review- CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS"

Maria and Cissy,

Thank you for sharing thoughtful reflections regarding our research methods. Your comments have sparked a great discussion within our team about how we can ensure our process is more trauma-informed. I hope this post will clarify our intent, while attending to the impact of our approach thus far.

The ultimate goal of the project is to determine the skills that all medical students should master to become trauma-informed doctors. The intent behind our ACEs Connection recruitment is to include voices in this process other than medical educators.

The point about compensation is so critical and something our team has discussed. We have applied for several sources of funding, but to date our team has been unsuccessful in securing any funding for any of our projects. We continue to apply for funding so that we can offer compensation in future projects. Our group is entirely volunteer and recieves no monetary compensation, but we acknowledge that we would receive academic credit for publishing any results.

The project is being conducted with four medical schools: University of Oklahoma, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of California- Davis, and Harvard. Each school sought its own IRB approval.

This link directs participants to an application. We are seeking 24 community members to participate and created the application in case there were more interested participants than we had slots available. The limited demographic information collected in the survey is representative of the demographic data and identifying information participants would be asked to share while participating. Interested participants can view the entire survey without any information being recorded. More details about the project and the researcher contact information can be found on the application.

The results and final competencies will be shared with participants. If participants would like to be identified in the final publication of results, they will be named as an "expert with lived experience".

Questions about the study protocols, how information is stored, and how results will be distributed will be included on the study information sheet. We have attached that here to provide more information.

Researcher contact information: Taylor Brown, taylor_brown@hms.harvard.edu

Again, we thank you for your reflections and the opportunity to open a dialogue about trauma-informed research practices.

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