The New Faculty Seed Funding Grant competition is typically held every 1-2 years. Grants of up to $10,000 are available. Newer faculty (within 3 years of their appointment to the Department of Surgery) are eligible to apply. Only 1 application per faculty member is permitted. If you need an application form, please contact Karen Mosier at karen.mosier@usask.ca. All requests must be reviewed by the Research Committee prior to approval.

The purpose of the Department of Surgery Publication Fund Award is to help faculty recover the costs of publication charges. The maximum award is $1000 per faculty member per calendar year.

The Department of Surgery research committee will only fund publications from peer-reviewed and respectable publishers. The journal should be PubMed indexed and preferably have an impact factor unless it is a relatively new journal. 

Furthermore, the research committee does not want to discourage publications of case reports, but unfortunately, we must prioritize funding support for publications of primary papers due to our small publication fund budget. Therefore, we will not award publication funding for case reports, commentaries, or review papers. We will only fund original scientific research. Systematic reviews will be considered on a case-by-case basis depending on the quality of the methodology. If you need an application, please contact Karen Mosier at karen.mosier@usask.ca. All requests must be reviewed by the Research Committee prior to approval.

The Department of Surgery has funding for residents for travel to present their research. Travel funding will not be given to present another person’s work at a conference/meeting. Travel requests (up to $2000 CAN) are reviewed on a case-by-case basis by the Research Committee. Residents are allowed to apply for only one travel award per fiscal year (July – June). You can apply for this award at any time. You must apply for travel funding prior to attending your conference/meeting. If you need an application, please contact Karen Mosier at karen.mosier@usask.ca.

The Resident Research Incentives Program (RRIP) allows residents to receive monetary incentives based on how much of a research project is completed as follows: submit an ethics application $400; collect data for a project $200; and submit an article for publication $400. For publications, the article has to be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal (and confirmed to undergo review) but it does not have to be accepted for publication in order to be compensated. The total award is for $1000. Three projects per year (maximum) per resident are eligible to qualify for a research incentive. This is a cash bursary award. The supervisor does not have to be a Department of Surgery faculty member for the resident to be eligible to apply for a RRIP award.

You can apply for this program at any time. For this year’s funding cycle, money will be paid retroactively for resident work done from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024. If you need an application form, please contact Karen Mosier at karen.mosier@usask.ca.

The purpose of our Department of Surgery Resident Research Award is to support our residents to do research. Money is available for resident research projects. Awards are available for up to $5000. Applications must include a project lay summary, time frame, education/training/career objectives, a detailed project description, resident’s annotated CV, budget justification, and supervisor statement.

This competition is usually held 1-2 times per year. All requests must be reviewed by the Research Committee prior to approval. If you need an application, please contact Karen Mosier at karen.mosier@usask.ca.

If you are awarded a Resident Research Award, please acknowledge the Department of Surgery Resident Research Award in all your presentation materials.

The purpose of the Resident Research Publication Award is to encourage more residents to publish papers. This $1000 award is for the publication deemed of the highest caliber as determined by the research committee. For the 2023 competition, surgery resident papers published between September 1, 2022 and August 31, 2023 will be eligible for this competition. The winner will be announced at the Resident Research Day in the fall. If you need an application to apply, please contact Karen Mosier at karen.mosier@usask.ca.

Clinical Investigator Program

The Clinician Investigator Program (CIP) is a RCPSC certified program, and is available to residents that have demonstrated interest and potential for a career as a clinical investigator. The program accommodates training in diverse research areas ranging from basic and correlative science studies of disease pathogenesis to epidemiological investigations of social/population determinants of health.

• Clinician Investigator Program

Information Sessions

Information Session – August 25, 2023
Department of Surgery Resident Awards Information Session –
Karen E. Mosier, Research Coordinator/Navigator, Department of Surgery

• Surgery Awards Info Session

Important Links

• Canadian Common CV (CCV)
• Canadian Foundation for Innovation
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research
• Canadian Light Source
• Fedoruk Centre
• Guide for Submitting Briefs to House of Commons Committees
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada
• ORCID
• RUH Foundation
• Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences
• Saskatchewan Health Authority Operational Approval
• Saskatoon Cancer Centre
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
• The Conversation
• Tri-council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research

Research Handbook

This handbook has been designed to facilitate applying for funding and to inform about the steps that need to be taken to apply for a grant. This handbook also covers: - how to obtain research ethics - how to find research funding - how to write a grant - how to establish a research program - and a resident research project roadmap

Research Rounds

Research Rounds – February 16, 2024
How to Write a Paper - 
Dr. Daniel MacPhee, Professor, Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, WCVM and Karen Mosier, Research Coordinator, Department of Surgery

Research Rounds – November 17, 2023
Systematic Reviews and Avoiding Predatory Publishers –
Erin Watson, Clinical Medicine Liaison Library, Irene and Leslie Dubé Health Sciences Library

Research Rounds – September 22, 2023
How to Apply for Ethics & Common Problems with Ethic Application Submissions – Dr. Nick Raymond, Research Ethics Specialist, Research Ethics Office

Research Support

Statistical Support
Clinical Research Support Unit

Clinical Trials Support
Clinical Trial Support Unit

Research Involving First Nationas, Métis and Inuit Peoples of Canada

Are you writing a grant proposal and want to be inclusive of Indigenous knowledge, perspectives, and values in your research? Indigenous communities are very diverse, and many are interested in collaborative research partnerships.

A good place to start would be to visit the CIHR-funded Saskatchewan First Nations and Métis Health Research Network, housed at the University of Saskatchewan, for resources on the history of First Nations, Métis and Inuit people in Canada, contemporary issues in health and wellness, and principles on conducting health research in partnership with Indigenous communities.  

Chapter 9: Research Involving the First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples of Canada part of  the Tri-Council Policy Statement on Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS2), a joint policy of Canada’s three federal research agencies, provides guidance on ethical research policies and practices. The Tri-Councils’ Panel on Research Ethics has also produced a Course of Research Ethics.

The First Nations principles of OCAP® are a set of standards that establish how First Nations data should be collected, protected, used, or shared. They are the de facto standard for how to conduct research with First Nations. Standing for ownership, control, access and possession, OCAP® asserts that First Nations have control over data collection processes in their communities, and that they own and control how this information can be used. Visit the First Nations Information Governance Centre’s website for more information and the Fundamentals of OCAP® online course.

Métis and Inuit communities may also have data sovereignty and governance agreements in place, or want to develop research agreements as part of partnering on research.

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