FPIN: From Scholarly Activity to Accessible Publication (HelpDesk Answers -HDA)
The Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN) collaborates with residencies and family medicine departments around the country to help residents and faculty succeed with “synthesis research” and meet RRC scholarly activity requirements. With FPIN’s structured clinical scholarship program, faculty alone, or faculty working with residents can add value to their research projects through accessible and rewarding clinical publication, utilizing Evidence-Based Practice’s own HelpDesk Answer series as a template. HelpDesk Answers can be researched, completed and published in as little as 6-8 weeks, as students and residents learn research and critical appraisal skills, using the best available evidence. Participants will learn the process of researching, critically appraising and writing for an evidence-based publication, and how to get faculty and students/residents working together to achieve scholarly activity goals.
The Art of Peer Reviewing: Providing a Comprehensive Review of a Manuscript
FPIN: Co-author Mentoring…Who, What, When, Why and How
New RRC requirements have forced family medicine residencies to rapidly develop programs that demonstrate scholarly work. Often residencies must develop such programs without much expertise or formal training. FPIN has a system of co-author mentorship to help first time authorsease into the world of scholarly writing. Co-author mentors can assist even the best writer with organizing and focusing his/her thoughts to deliver a manuscript that is ready for editorial review. Mentoring also provides a wonderful foundation for faculty development and resident research. At this session FPIN editors will review the qualifications and role of the co-author mentor and offer advice for identifying mentors at your program. Participants will be given tools and resources to use towards becoming a co-author mentor at their program.
FPIN: Getting Students from Evidence-based Research to Publication (PEPID)
The Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN) has developed an editorial process by which individuals can write and publish on personal areas of interest in a minimal amount of time, in dot point format for the handheld and online. This seminar will provide participants the tools they will need, including templates and examples, to personally write as well as implement scholarly student research at their own institution. They will also receive outcomes based information showing how this impacted one school of medicine and can do the same for theirs.
Grading Evidence: SORTing Out the Best Information for Our Patients and Our Learners
Rating the quality of clinical studies and grading the overall evidence from a body of clinical studies and guidelines is a key skill for providing medical care and teaching learners. This skill has taken on greater importance in the electronic era because vast quantities of data can be accessed in seconds. This session will focus on the Center for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM) system and Family Medicine’s Strength of Recommendation Taxonomy (SORT) as tools for rating the quality of data and clinical recommendations. Attendees will obtain a practical working knowledge in how to use evidence rating scales for sifting through the evidence that is immediately applicable to teaching, academic writing and clinical practice.
FPIN: Practical Faculty Scholarship – Writing for an Evidence-based Point-of-Care Publication (PEPID)
The Family Physicians Inquiries Network (FPIN) offers many practical and doable scholarship opportunities for clinician faculty, including supportive editorial systems through which faculty, fellows and residents can publish on clinical topics of personal areas of interest. Advantages of publishing in PEPID PCP includes a publication credit, free access to PEPID (handheld or web based), and less time requirement than most scholarly publications. This interactive, hands on workshop will provide instructions, templates and examples, in workshop writing and editorial feedback, Outcomes expected are that each participant will have the opportunity to publish their topic of choice within six weeks of the workshop, as well as strategies and opportunities to engage other faculty and residents in publishing in PEPID PCP. (Laptops are highly recommended)