Training opportunities

Training opportunities

Training programs

Training for researchers, families and patients in research partnership (Patient oriented research learning modules)

Mandate
Offering a series of interactive, online modules to:
• Help you learn about patient-oriented research in child health.
• Improve the relevance and quality of child health research.
• Get more people involved in patient-oriented research.
Curriculum
• What is Health Research and Who is Involved?
• Timeline of a Research Study
• Foundations of Patient Engagement
• Patient Engagement in Practice
• Research Ethics 

Learners

Anyone interested in learning more about patient-oriented research.

Terms

Mandate
The CIHR Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA) offer these four online self-learning modules on patient engagement in research.
Curriculum
• What is patient engagement ?
• The research process with patient partners on the team
• Setting up a research project for successful partnership
• Engaging patients in the research team

Learners

Patient partners and other members of research teams.

Terms

Mandate
The proposed practical resources will help those who want to integrate patient engagement into their current or future work.
Curriculum
• Plan your research project
• Budget and remuneration
• Evaluation
• Resources and theory guides
• Articles, reviews and videos

Learners

Researchers and patients

Terms

Mandate
By the end of this ten weeks course, learners will be ready to partner with integrated research teams who have an interest in child neurodevelopmental research.
Curriculum
• Family engagement in research (why it is important)
• How to engage families throughout the research process
• Barriers/facilitators to engagement
• Ethics surrounding engagement
• Tools and resources to support and evaluate engagement activities

Learners

Researchers (graduate students, research coordinators, investigators, clinician-researchers etc.) and families (parents, siblings, grandparents) who have an interest in child neurodevelopmental research.

Terms

  • English only
  • Online
  • Synchronous
  • 500$CAD

Mandate
Provide internship scholarships, graduate scholarships and mentoring activities to build capacity to improve the care of children with brain-based developmental disorders, their quality of life and that of their families.

Curriculum
• Patient-Oriented Research (PAR)
• Science of Implementation (SMO);
• Knowledge Mobilization (KM);
• Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Decolonization and Indigenization (EDI-DA).

Learners

Patients, researchers and policy makers.

Terms

Pediatric and perinatal research training programs for students and new researchers

Mandate
Offer complementary training to disciplinary academic training offered in universities by setting up a virtual training environment conducive to the development of essential skills for translational and cross-sector research and interdisciplinary collaboration in perinatal drug research.
Curriculum
• General definitions and concepts
• Toxicology and pharmacology
• Pharmacogenomics
• Pharmacoepidemiology
• Methodology
• Machine learning
• Regulatory Considerations for Medications and Pregnancy

Terms

  • English and French
  • Online
  • Synchronous
  • $0 fees
  • Website here

Mandate
• Increase capacity for research, by training researchers using an equitable, open and accessible training model.
• Provide cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary training and mentorship networks for researchers.
• Create a seamless pathway from learner to leader in a cross sectoral career
Curriculum
• Research Dissemination For Engagement, Influence & Impact
• Scientific Concepts
• Ethics, Quality & Risk Management
• Priority & Emerging Research Themes
• Research Operations & Management

Learners

Undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, or new investigators, with a local supervisor/mentor, conducting research in the perinatal and/or child health and well-being sector.

Terms

English only
Variable pathways
Variable cost
Website here

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