Consulting Services

Clinical Epidemiology (C2E2) has consultants to help with your research projects. For more information, click on their logo:

Education

• Office of the Vice-President Research's Workshops: www.research.ubc.ca/calendar.aspx
• UBC Library Research workshops: www.library.ubc.ca/life/workshops/registration.html

• Information on Privacy Best Practice in Health Research:  www.ors.ubc.ca/ethics/privacy/index.htm
• Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics: www.pre.ethics.gc.ca

• A Subject Resources page for Grant Writing and Funding put together by the BioMedical Librarian at VGH:
  http://toby.library.ubc.ca/subjects/subjpage1.cfm?id=302
• Faculty of Medicine resources on "Grantsmanship": www.med.ubc.ca/research.htm

• e-journals and books:  Electronic Journals and Textbooks for Clinicians
• HighWire Press
• Try using Scirus, a powerful new search engine developed by Elsevier Science for locating scientific information only.
  Scirus delivers relevant search results because it focuses on scientific information, indexes complete documents, searches the whole Web including >>access-controlled sites, and reads non-test files like PDF.
• Evidence Based Nursing on line
• PubMed Tutorial

• British Columbia Institute of Technology: Clinical Research Program provides classroom and distance education for clinical research professionals.
• Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation Center (C2E2): http://c2e2.vchri.ca/s/Home.asp
• Research Skills for Health Professionals: Self-directed courses offered by Simon Fraser University Continuing Education.
• Selected Resources for Medical, Nursing and Psychological Tests, Surveys and Research Instruments.
• StatSoft Electronic Textbook: Basic Statistics Lessons on the Web.
• Supercourse: Web based training in epidemiology, biostatistics, and internet and global health. This site is an international collaboration by over 100 researchers to produce web based training in a variety of topics of interest to researchers.
• Learn more about qualitative research methods.
• Resource guide for Evidence-based Practice

• UBC Writing Centre offers courses and on-line writing resources.
• Instructions to authors in the Health Sciences:  Links to instructions for more than 3,000 journals

• Clinical Research Professional Development (CRPD) Program
  The CRPD is an education initiative led by a group of individuals committed to developing a program that supports the professional development of clinical research coordinators from the Lower Mainland's teaching hospitals' research institutes.
  
  For information on upcoming CRPD events see the VCHRI Research Education workshops webpage or page 5 in the CRPD Resources.
  
  The CRPD Resources was produced by the CRPD team and provides professional development resources for clinical research coordinators and includes the workshops that will be offered in 2011.
• Nursing Research Facilitator. VCH and PHC welcome Aggie Black, RN, MPH, our new Nursing Research Facilitator. Please click here to read more about this new role.
• InspireNet. Innovative Nursing Services and Practice Informed by Research & Evaluation Network. InspireNet is a new initiative to form a BC nursing health services research network. Please click here to read more about this new network.
• CIHR has three knowledge translation online learning modules that are now freely available on the CIHR knowledge translation website. The three modules: A Guide to Researcher and Knowledge User Collaboration in Health Research, Introduction to Evidence-Informed Decision Making and Critical Appraisal of Intervention Studies.
  
• Free e-books for doctors and others.
  
• CIHR's homepage. A link to everything a Researcher needs from "what to apply for" to "final decisions" all on one page. Visit CIHR homepage now!
  
• A Framework for Research, a discussion about how to approach research, with links to resources for researchers at VCHRI.
• Resouces for Resources for nursing and other health disciplines