Resources

Faculty development offers supports, courses and resources to help you develop research skills for medical education research and clinical research.

creo™

creo™ is an online learning tool that delivers research education in a straight forward and easy-to-digest way, guiding the learner through the step-wise process of developing a research project. More information can be found in the creo Information Booklet.

The Gwenna Moss Centre

The Gwenna Moss Centre regularly offers courses on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, writing retreats and help with manuscript writing and more.

The College of Medicine Research Office

Through the CoM Research office, there is research support offered.

For a handout on developing Research Questions using PICOT and FINER Click Here.

Research metrics measure the impact of scholarly works. Various metrics have been developed to track the impact of individual articles, authors, and journals.

The Research Metrics guide will introduce you to many of these measures and how to apply them to your work.

Research Metrics

Med Ed Research Grants

Faculty Development has compiled two medical education research resources for you which were originally done for the Medical Education Research and Scholarship Day. You can refer to both these documents – information on medical education grants available and the journals you can consider to submit your papers for publication. If you have suggestions on additions to these documents – please contact medicinefaculty.development@usask.ca. We want these documents to be ever-greened - keeping them up-to-date and relevant and appreciate your input.

Funding Sources for Medical Education Research

Journals in Medical Education

Library Support

The University Library collaborates with researchers through our Liaison Librarian Program, by providing information resources and research tools and facilitating scholarly communication.

The USask Health Sciences Library has resources that you can access that can help with research. We update this pdf annually.

University Library Resources & Services that Support Medical Education Research & Scholarship

IT supports for Research

Includes Access to software such as NVivo, R project Statistical Computing, SAS, SPSS and Stata.

Sign up at UnivRS at https://wiki.usask.ca/display/itsproject217/UnivRS+Home. All research projects have to be entered into this system.

QI / System Improvement

To connect with the Health Quality Council go to https://hqc.sk.ca/ offering excellent programs to develop QI skills for SK health care.

Greg’s story at https://gregswings.ca; can be a powerful story for needed systems change.

Choosing Wisely in SK – is coordinated through the Health Quality Council.

Online options

RIME (Research in Medical Education ) information is available through AMEE https://www.mededworld.org/Conferences/Conference-Items/RIME-2019.aspx

The Learning Scientists: Different Research Methods: Strengths & Weaknesses

The Learning Scientsts: A Statstics Primer for the Overwhelmed Educator

Knowledge Translation Canada: Offers an introductory online course on Systematic Review and meta-analyses; more information. Check out their other education and training opportunities here.

PowerPoint on the qualities of visual abstracts and how to create one for your research: http://www.meeting-support.com/downloads/687280/25331/Visual-Abstract-101-AAMC_05212020_font-updated.pdf

Faculty Development Library

Check out the hard copies of resources we have in Faculty Development easily! We have a FD “Library“ now which you can scan online to see if we have titles of books or medical education articles you might be interested in. These are available to be borrowed by contacting the medicinefaculty.development@usask.ca.

We are happy for these resources to be used by individuals in the College of Medicine or other Health Professions, anyone participating in our FD programming, as well as to have them go out to distributed teaching sites in SK. Go to https://cmfdlibrary.librarika.com/. If there are great titles related to medical education that you think we should have, let us know. We welcome your suggestions.

These books and reference materials are kept in the Faculty Development Resource room (Room 319) which you are also welcome to visit. Come see Amy Winik in room 318 at St. Andrews College.

Track Your Thinking

Thinking about your thinking – click here to download and use this template to record “process notes” to reflect on what you want to use or take away from this page. This can be similar to writing a progress note on patient care. Download this pdf and keep it as a record. Write out your comments on what you are learning and come back to this from time to time to see how your thoughts and feelings are changing. Review what you have written and re-comment on how you are applying what you are learning to your day to day practice.

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