Information for Residents/Fellows:
Schedule a meeting with the Program director (Dr. Michael Hawkes) early in your training, to review research expectations and objectives, processes and supports, interests and possible projects/mentors.
It is advised that you approach individual mentors with respect to possible projects and to finalize a project/mentor prior to the first research block. Trainees are encouraged to meet with a variety of faculty, within and outside the division and even if they have no interest in having them of mentors. This will allow for exchange of ideas and valuable life lessons.
It is important to ensure that the you are clear about all aspects of completion of the project including what skills/knowledge may need to be acquired, and timelines for completion.
Plan to present your progress/completed research at a National/International forum (e.g., AMMI or ID week), and consider deadlines for abstract submission for those meetings when planning a timeline for completion of the project. Acceptance of an abstract to such a meeting is a great achievement. As an absolute minimum, you should present your completed project locally at the WCHRI research day or DoP research day.
Publication in a peer reviewed journal is strongly encouraged. This should also be discussed at an early stage with the research mentor.
A Research Methodology Course is offered by the Postgraduate Medical Education office and is designed for new trainees to help develop research skills. Completion of this course is required as part of the academic requirements for Pediatric Infectious Diseases residents/fellows. All new Pediatric ID trainees will be registered and are expected to complete this course. (This course is comprised of self-paced online modules).
If you are considering additional research training (e.g., a third year, focused mainly on research) you should engage in seeking fellowship funding as early as the end of their first year.
Please consider searching PubMed for published articles from the Pediatric Infectious Diseases faculty.
WCHRI offers a research budget each year that focuses on maternal and/or child health that trainees may apply for. This budget covers research grants and funding to attend research related conferences. All further information such as eligibility and funding amounts can be found in our Postgraduate Trainee Manual, under Funding and Claims.
Research Day is a full day of workshops, networking, oral presentation and poster viewing sessions. For additional information please see the WCHRI website.
WCHRI's Quarterly newsletter highlights the research activities of WCHRI and its members.
Connecting Through Research is a high level, theme based, lunch time research talk and are a collaboration between WCHRI and the Department of Pediatrics. For additional information, dates, topics please see the WCHRI website.
This annual event showcases research by staff and learners in the Department of Pediatrics and is open to all members of the Department of Pediatrics and staff of the Stollery Children's Hospital.
Pediatric Research Day : TBD
Please see the following website for more details on our Annual Pediatric Research Day.
A Research Methodology Course is offered by the Postgraduate Medical Education office and is designed for new trainees to help develop research skills. Completion of this course is required as part of the academic requirements for Pediatric Infectious Diseases residents/fellows. All new Pediatric ID Trainees will be registered and are expected to complete this course. (This course is comprised of self-paced online modules)