To ensure patients and caregivers at all levels of patient-engagement experience have the right skills, expertise and knowledge to be effective partners in the research system, OSSU and its network provide training in patient-oriented research, including how to:
- engage in health research
- understand patient
roles - partner with
researchers - apply learnings to real-world
projects - connect with others engaged in patient-oriented research.
OSSU Capacity Building Compendium
The Capacity Building Compendium is a comprehensive catalogue of training courses on patient-oriented research offered in Ontario. This fourth edition contains 35 entries, including free online resources and tools, seminars and symposia series, and training programs.
The Capacity Building Compendium is an ongoing work in progress and its contents are not an exhaustive list of capacity building initiatives in Ontario. We welcome your suggestions about how the Capacity Building Compendium should be expanded or made more useful for you. Readers are encouraged to send suggestions for the Capacity Building Compendium content and format to ossu@ossu.ca and to share this document with others.
AI and What it Means for You
This webinar will help patient and caregiver partners, and the public, better understand how artificial intelligence (AI) is used in healthcare and answer a few questions you may have about AI in healthcare and public health. Session topics include: Examples of how AI is used Health Care; What is all this data and how is it involved in AI; What is AI; and, Why AI should matter to you?
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Click here to view the transcript of this webinar.
Additional information can be found in an article entitled “Exploring patient perspectives on how they can and should be engaged in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in health care” Look for the link to “Additional file 1“ under “Supplementary Information”.
If you have any feedback about this session (ways to improve the session or make it even more understandable, accessible and useful) or would like to see more information presented in a future webinar, please send an email to: Health.ai.feedbak@gmail.com
Implementation Science Training Resource
BEGINNER LEVEL: New to Patient-Oriented Research
The OSSU Office of Spread and Scale at Women’s College Hospital has developed new virtual training resources for patients and caregiver partners to learn about implementation science and how they can engage in this work. Patients and caregivers, patient engagement advisors, implementation scientists and providers co-developed the following resources:
– A two-part animated video series which follows a patient partner as she gets involved in an implementation-focused project.
– Two infographics:
– A “Frequently Asked Questions” page
Materials can be accessed in English and French on the “LEARNING” tab of the website.
CIHR Foundational Curriculum in Patient-Oriented Research
BEGINNER LEVEL: New to Patient-Oriented Research
This course is currently under redevelopment and is moving from an in person modular course to a virtual asynchronous format.
This resource is designed to equip interested learners, including patients, researchers, health care professionals and other stakeholders, with the basic skills and knowledge to engage meaningfully in patient-oriented research.
Dates for future delivery of the Foundational Curriculum in Patient-Oriented Research are to be determined.
Patient-Oriented Research Training & Learning – Primary Health Care (PORTL-PHC)
(NEW) BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE LEVEL: New and some experience in patient-oriented research
Patient-Oriented Research Training & Learning – Primary Health Care (PORTL-PHC) is a self-directed, online training program designed to meet the learning needs of stakeholders who are interested in engaging in, or using, patient-oriented primary health care research.
The training program includes four inter-linked modules: 1) Patient Priorities and Patient Engagement in Primary Health Care; 2) Methods and Examples of Patient Engagement in Primary Health Care Research; 3) Skills Development in Patient Engagement and Patient-Oriented Research; 4) Applying Patient-Oriented Research in the Learner’s Own Context.
Please see attached flyer here for more information and how to sign up.
Partners in Research (PiR): Online training opportunity
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL: Some experience with patient-oriented research
One of seven online training programs being developed with OSSU support, the Partners in Research (PiR) program is an online training environment provided by St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. This course consists of 4 live web-based sessions and is designed for patients, families/caregivers and healthcare researchers. The PiR course will focus on how patients, families, and healthcare researchers can work together to improve health research and healthcare. It is delivered by a combination of researchers and patients.
Workshop highlights
- A personalized online learning environment to help you set and meet your
individual patient-oriented research learning goals - Interactive activities and discussions to help you build capacity in
applying patient-oriented research principles to real-world projects - Connect with others who are interested in or already involved in
patient-oriented research - Access to a variety of useful resources on patient-oriented research.
For more information on the PiR course, see here.
McMaster Health Forum | Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis
McMaster has a number of resources designed to help patients partner fully in health research:
Finding and using research evidence: a guide for citizens
BEGINNER LEVEL: New to Patient-Oriented Research
An eight-module online course (occasionally offered as a webinar) designed to help patients and citizen’s find and use research evidence. Click here to learn more.
Using Patient-Oriented Research to strengthen Ontario’s health system
BEGINNER LEVEL: New to Patient-Oriented Research
Click here to learn more about this online course for citizens.
Ontario’s Health System: Key Insights for Engaged Citizens, Professionals and Policy-makers
BEGINNER LEVEL: New to Patient-Oriented Research
Online line book about Ontario’s health care system. Click here to view sample chapters from the book.
10 things you need to know about how Ontario’s health system works
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL: Some experience with patient-oriented research
This webinar features a discussion by Drs. John Lavis and Vasanthi Srinivasan on the book. Click here to view the webinar.
More information is available on the Learn How section of the McMaster Health Forum website.
Virtual Masterclass: The Use and Conduct of Patient-Oriented Research
ADVANCED LEVEL: Significant experience with patient-oriented research
Master the art of patient-oriented research with a virtual Masterclass presented by the McMaster Health Forum. Policy-makers and managers, patients and families as well as researchers will learn practical skills in informative and interactive weekly online classes.
Registration is now closed for all Virtual Masterclass offerings. We hope to provide additional offerings in the future.
Masterclass: The Use and Conduct of Patient-Oriented Research
ADVANCED LEVEL: Significant experience with patient-oriented research
This intensive 3-day course immerses researchers, patients, caregivers, policy-makers and healthcare providers in the fundamentals of how to conduct and champion patient-oriented research (POR) with tools, resources and more. It is taught by leaders in the field, with stimulating presentations from healthcare and government speakers.
Click here for more information on the Masterclass.