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Research Knowledge and Skill Builder

Upcoming Research Knowledge and Skill Builder Sessions

Our next session: November 19, 2024, 1:00pm-2:00pm

Title: How Many Subjects Do I Need? A Crash Course in Sample Size Calculations.

Presenters: Dr. Zuber Mulla, Professor, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University. Click here to read a Biosketch of Dr. Mulla

Overview: Dr. Mulla will review the definitions of Type I and Type II errors and walk the audience through several basic sample size calculations using scenarios that are commonly encountered in the health sciences.  The free website OpenEpi will be used during this session.

Note: attendees should be prepared to work through a few case examples and have a device to be able to access the OpenEpi website

Register in advance for this meeting: click here 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Our last Research Knowledge and Skill Builder Session: 

Title: Using generative AI in Systematic Reviews

Presenters: Istvan David, Assistant Professor of Computing and Software

Slides | Video

Below are video recordings and slides from the Department of Family Medicine Research in-services. We offer these in-services to continue to build the research capacity of faculty and staff across the department.

If you have any questions about Research Knowledge and Skill Builders, please contact Neha Arora, our Clinic Research Coordinator (narora@mcmaster.ca).

Expandable List

HiREB Applications and Resubmissions

Janice Sancan
Research Ethics Officer at the Hamilton Integrated Research Ethics Board

Video | Slides


Creating and Managing a Research Budget

Laura Cleghorn
Research Operations Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine

Julie Datta
Project Manager, Department of Family Medicine

Dawn Elston
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine

Francine Marzanek
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine

VideoSlides


Intro to Business Case
Presenter:  Francine Marzanek and Ricardo Angeles

VideoSlides

Research Agreements
Presenter:  Ms. Caroline Woods
Senior Agreements Officer, Health Research Services

Slides | Video

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The Grant Process

Catherine Gill Pottruff 
Senior Grants Advisor, Health Research Services

Slides


Working with Health Research Services: Administrative Processes and General Overview of Services

Julie Crosskill
Research Grants Manager, Health Research Services

VideoSlides

 

Implementation Science and Applications in Primary Care Research
Presenters:  Dr. Jennifer Salerno, Ms. Rebecca Clark, Ms. Jessica Gaber and the VIP Research Lab

Video | Slides

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Retrospective Chart Reviews
Presenters: Dr. Michelle Howard (BA(Hons), MSc, PhD), Associate Professor
Jeffrey Templeton, Research Coordinator

Video | Slides


Implementation Science in Family Medicine
Presenters: Dr. Henry Siu, Ms. Dawn Elston, Dr. Dee Mangin and Dr. Jennifer Salerno

Video

Using Electronic Medical Record Data in Primary Care Research
Presenters: Jennifer Lawson and Shuaib Hafid

Video | Slides


Data Visualization in Research
Presenter: Subhanya Sivajothy, Data Analysis and Visualization Librarian, McMaster University

In this session, we discussed the two applications of data visualization – data exploration and communication

Video | Slides


Using Health Administrative Data for Primary Care Research

Presenters: Dr. Michelle Howard, PhD, Associate Professor
Shuaib Hafid, MPH, Statistical Analyst

Video | Slides


Geographic Information Systems and Health Research (Part 2)

Presenter: Christine Homuth, Spatial Information (GIS) Specialist, Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship, McMaster University Library; Shuaib Hafid, Statistical Analyst, DFM.

Handout | Slides

Topic: Exploring Evaluation
PresenterRachel Harris, Program Evaluation Coordinator, PHS – Epidemiology & Wellness, City of Hamilton

Slides 

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From the ground up: the impact and importance of community-led research
PCRC Speaker Series presenters: Lindsay Jennings, Community investigator for the Prison Health Research Council
James Gillett, Community Research Platform

Video
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Qualitative Case Studies
Presenter
Jessica Gaber

Video | Slides


QI in Primary Care — When, how, and how is it different from research?
Presenters: Dr. Dale Guenter, Professor, DFM and Dr. Kathryn Cottrell, PGY3 Research and Scholarship

Video | Slides


Working with the experts: involving people with lived and living experience in research
Presenters: Dr. Claire Bodkin, Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct) and Jammy Pierre, peer investigator, Nowhere To Go project

Video | Slides


From Researcher to Storyteller- For the Community, By the Community
Presenter: Nirosha Balakumar, MPhil, EDI & Anti-Racism Partner

Video | Slides


 Socio-demographic data collection: current evidence and practices in primary care research
Presenter: Jennifer Lawson, Dawn Elston and Neha Arora

Video | Slides


Honouring our social obligations: Incorporating social accountability & responsibility throughout the research process
Presenters: Dr. Tejal Patel, and Neha Arora, Clinic Research Coordinator

Video | Slides


Principled Community Engaged Research

Presenter: C.A. Klassen, Community Engaged Research Facilitator in the Office of Community Engagement

Video | Slides


Qualitative Research: Overview of Methods

Meredith Vanstone
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine

Video | Slides


Grounded Theory, Phenomenology & Narrative Methodologies: Designing methodologically rigorous qualitative studies

Meredith Vanstone
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine

Video | Slides


Data Coding and Analysis

Meredith Vanstone
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine

Slides


Interviews and Focus Groups

Jessica Jurgurtis
Postdoctoral Fellow, Health, Aging & Society

Slides


Responding to Sensitive Health & Social Issues

Laura Cleghorn
Research Operations Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine

Jessica Gaber
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine

Slides


Topic: Race in Research
Dr. Anjali Menezes
Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct), Department of Family Medicine

Neha Arora
Clinic Research Coordinator, EDI Lead-Research, Department of Family Medicine

Video | Slides 

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Patient, Caregiver and Community Engagement Series
Presenter:  Dr. Jennifer Salerno

Slides: Patient, caregiver and community engagement

The Art of Manuscript Writing

Jessica Gaber
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine

Video | Slides


Manuscript Preparation and Authorship

Lawrence Grierson
Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine

Video | Slides


Collective Skill Building and Collegial Support

Cathy Risdon
Professor and Vice-chair, Department of Family Medicine

Video | Slides


Editing

Casey Irvin
Knowledge Translation Specialist, Department of Family Medicine

Video Slides

Research and the media

Presenters: Jennifer Stranges, Manager, Media Relations, Faculty of Health Sciences Erin Beaulieu, Manager, Knowledge Translation and Strategic Communications, DFM

Slides | Video

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Inclusive Language

Abithiny Selvarajah
Research Assistant, Department of Family Medicine

Video | Slides | Tip Sheet


Presenting Data in Visually Engaging Ways

Casey Irvin MA
Knowledge Translation Specialist, Department of Family Medicine

Video | Slides


Community Engagement

Casey Irvin
Knowledge Translation Specialist, Department of Family Medicine

Jessica Gaber
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine

Pam Forsyth
Managing Director, Research Operations, Department of Family Medicine

Dawn Elston
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine

Neha Arora
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine

Video | Slides

Organizing your Work

Casey Irvin
Knowledge Translation Specialist, Department of Family Medicine

Laura Cleghorn
Research Operations Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine

Larkin Lemarche
Research Associate, Department of Family Medicine

Video | Slides

Data Justice and Cyber(in)security in Family Medicine Research

Dr. Andrea Zeffiro, Krzysztof Adamczyk, and Danica Evering

Slides | Video


Managing your research data: an introduction to DMP Assistant

Jay Brodeur
Associate Director of Digital Scholarship Services in the McMaster University Library

Isaac Pratt
Research Data Management Specialist with the University Library and Research & High-Performance Computing Services

Slides | Video


SPSS

Larkin Lamarche
Research Associate, Department of Family Medicine

Melissa Pirrie
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine

Video part 1

Slides part 1


REDCap

Ricardo Angeles
Research Associate, Department of Family Medicine

Steve Dragos
Data Manager and Research Assistant, Department of Family Medicine

Video part 1 | Video part 2

Slides part 1 | Slides part 2


Just the basics: Learning about the essential steps to do some simple things in SPSS

Larkin Lamarche
Research Associate, Department of Family Medicine

Video | Slides


How To Build a Survey using the McMaster LimeSurvey Service

Michael Wilson
Research Ethics Officer, McMaster University Research Ethics Board

Video | How-to Guide


EndNote for Research

Steve Dragos
Research Assistant, Department of Family Medicine

Video | Slides


What to Know About NVivo A Qualitative Primer

Laura Cleghorn
Research Operations Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine

Jessica Gaber
Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine

Part 1: Video | Slides
Part 2: Video | Slides

Knowledge Translation- Part I

Casey Irvin
Knowledge Translation Specialist, Department of Family Medicine

Erin Beaulieu
Knowledge Translation Specialist, Department of Family Medicine

Part 1: Video | Slides


Knowledge Translation- Part II

Casey Irvin
Knowledge Translation Specialist, Department of Family Medicine

Erin Beaulieu
Knowledge Translation Specialist, Department of Family Medicine

Part 2: Video | Slides


Effective Infographic Use in Health Communication

Meerab Majeed & Shania Bhopa
Department of Family Medicine

Video | Slides

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Integrated Knowledge Translation with a Health System Partner

Dr. Melissa Pirrie
Department of Family Medicine

Video | Slides

Adapt, evolve and repeat: Conducting research in the time of COVID-19

Julie Datta
Project Manager, Department of Family Medicine

Neha Arora
Clinic Research Coordinator, Department of Family Medicine

Video | Slides

Juddah’s Place- An Indigenous Evaluation
Presenter: Dr. Karen Hill

Video


Research Involving Indigenous Communities

Presenter: Renee Corbiere

Video | Slides


Indigenous Ways of Knowing: How should we conduct research together?

Dr. Amy Montour BSCN, MSC, MD, CCFP (CP)
Haudenosaunee, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory

Video | Slides