Research Skills Workshop
Mar 3rd, 2012 by Martin Dawes
Dee Mangin has kicked off this two day meeting challenging us and inspiring us. In New Zealand divisions have been answering primary care based questions effectively and collaboratively working with the department of general practice. For example demonstrating that with the right resources, family doctors can look after many more patients at home even when patients are quite sick such as those with pneumonia.
A provincial primary care research network is part of the system that will help that happen here and Morgan Price is describing what that might look like. The network will help clinicians interested in answering questions Engage, Develop, and Perform. This week the Canadian Primary Health Care Research Network (CPHCRN) for researchers went live and can followed in Linkedin. This national group indicates the impetus that is happening in primary care research. The number of initiatives locally and nationally is exciting with divisional resources, departmental resources, and provincial and federal research & knowledge translation dollars.
The ERI group of clinical faculty responsible for EBM, Research and Informatics at the residency sites met on Friday with many new members working through common issues. Ideas about creating common core resources for Evidence Based Medicine were discussed. As a large department with 15 sites this is an exciting development in terms of faculty collaborating together to provide our own teaching resources.
We had a visit from the Chinese University of Hong Kong who are very keen to share ideas on undergraduate and postgraduate education as well as research, as they help address the needs of developing primary care in South China. The scale of their population needs is quite incredible when compared to the BC. However some of the solutions are very similar despite this difference in scale. This is only one of many global sites interested in a partnership and we are starting to work on a strategy that will help us respond to these requests.
Martin Dawes