Education and Training Provision of SE RDSUs

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Education and Training Provision of SE RDSUs

• T Dean
• Portsmouth, Isle of Wight, South East Hants and
  West Sussex RDSU

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The RDSUs in South East

• All based within academic units
• Portsmouth, IW, SE Hants and West Sussex RDSU
  based at PIMHS, University of Portsmouth
• Sussex RDSU based at CHCR at University of
  Brighton
• Thames Valley RDSU covering Oxfordshire,
  Berkshire and Buckinghamshire at University of
  Oxford, Oxford Brookes and University of Reading
• Kent and Surrey RDSU based at CHSS, University of
  Kent
• Southampton RDSU covering South, West, North and
  Mid Hampshire based within the School of
  Medicine, University of Southampton

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SE RDSU Education and Training Programme

• Identifying Training Needs
• Generic Courses on Research
• Specialised Research Training
• EBP Training
• Responsive Training
• Accredited Training

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Identifying Training Needs

• Discussions with Trusts RD Leads
• Discussion at RDSU advisory meetings
• Staff questionnaires
• Length of workshops
• Advanced notice

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Generic Courses on Research

• Dependant on the RDSU and its local needs
• Portsmouth area RDSU
• All half-day workshops
• Each generic workshop is offered twice per year
  across the patch
• All but one is delivered solely RDSU staff

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Generic Courses on Research

• Portsmouth area RDSU
• Introduction to Research Journey
• Searching skills
• Funding for research
• Research Ethics
• Consumer involvement in research
• Study Design
• Data collection tools
• Statistics
• Research management and Governance
• Writing and presenting research

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Generic Courses on Research

• Thames Valley RDSU
• Thames Valley offers a series of workshops titled
  An Introduction to Research
• There are 9 half-day workshops including
• developing research question
• study designs
• research ethics
• statistics
• logistics of research
• research writing
• consumer involvement in RD, etc.
• One such series is run per year per county.

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Generic Courses on Research

• Southampton RDSU
• Southampton RDSU offers 9 generic research
  courses which can be attended individually or as
  a series
• Mixture of half-day and full-day courses
• Covering
• Research Governance in primary and secondary care
  
• turning your research question into a research
  protocol
• data protection and applying for ethics approval
• literature searching
• managing references
• presentation skills
• writing for publication
• involving children as volunteers and consumers in
  research
• overview of research for administrative research
  staff
• Delivered mainly by RDSU staff with some help
  from others (WReN, WTCRF).

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Generic Courses on Research

• Sussex RDSU
• Sussex RDSU offers a variety of courses across
  its patch.
• Covering,
• research design and methodology
• questionnaire design
• making sense of healthcare data
• ethics committee applications
• statistical design and analysis
• how to write grant applications
• writing up and presenting your data .
• Delivered mainly by RDSU staff . Some sessions
  have been developed in collaboration with local
  Trusts.

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Generic Courses on Research

• Kent and Surrey RDSU
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Introduction to Qualitative Research
• Exploring qualitative methods
• Analysing qualitative data
• Observation in the field
• How to critically appraise a qualitative research
  paper
• Quantitative Research Methods
• Introduction to Quantitative Research
• Designing Surveys
• How to critically appraise surveys
• Introduction to RCT
• Introduction to statistics
• All half-day sessions, 4 series offered/year (2
  in Surrey and 2 in Kent)

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Specialised Research TrainingDependant on the
RDSUs expertise

• Portsmouth Area RDSU
• Delivered mainly by RDSU staff
• External input from external sources
• Introduce a new workshop every year or every
  other year
• Collaborate with other RDSUs re specialised
  courses
• Specialised courses
• A Framework for Service Evaluation
• Peer Review of Research Proposal
• Systematic Reviews
• Measuring Quality of Life
• Health Economic Evaluation
• Action and Evaluation Research

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Specialised Research Training

• Thames Valley RDSU
• Run by RDSU feeding units and open to all (not
  free)
• Health Services Research Unit, University of
  Oxford
• Health Economics Research Centre, University of
  Oxford
• Department of Primary Health Care, University of
  Oxford
• Oxford Centre for Health Care Research
  Development, Oxford Brookes University
• Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Oxford
• Associate Unit Centre for Primary Care Pubic
  Health, University of Reading

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Specialised Research Training

• Thames Valley RDSU
• Rolling programme of training in systematic
  Reviews
• Introduction to Health Economics courses
• 3-day residential Advanced Methods of Cost
  Effectiveness Analysis
• Clinical Research Methods for Evaluating the
  Effects of Healthcare Interventions

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Specialised Research Training

• Sussex RDSU
• Introduction to Stats
• Intermediate Stats
• Advanced Stats
• SPSS courses in other RDSUs
• Survival analysis

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Specialised Research Training

• Southampton RDSU
• Qualitative Research Courses A series 4
  half-day workshops
• Introduction to qualitative research design
• Interviewing Techniques
• Thematic analysis of qualitative data
• Phenomenology Case studies

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Specialised Research Training

• Southampton RDSU
• Quantitative Research Courses A series 9
  full/half-day workshops
• Introduction to quantitative research design
• Statistics for beginners
• T-test and ANOVA
• Chi-square tests and odds ratios
• Using Excel to analyse Health data
• Survey design
• Questionnaire design
• Choosing and using an appropriate outcome
  measures
• Measuring quality of life

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EBP Training

• Introduction to EBP
• Critical Appraisal Training Workshop for
• Systematic Reviews
• RCTs
• Cohort Studies
• Case Control Studies
• Qualitative Studies
• Economic Evaluation

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Responsive Training

• Providing there is sufficient number we deliver
  courses eg
• VTS programmes for GP registrars (ports)
• Wessex Anaesthetists Forum (ports)
• Outreach Librarians in Hampshire and IW (ports)
• Wessex SpR management training programme (ports)
• Various clinical departments (soton)
• Public Health Top Up Training (soton)
• EBP Training to Mid Hants PCT (soton)
• Research skills for research supervisors in a
  Trust (Kent)
• Intensive training with defined groups of staff
  (Kent)

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Accredited Training

• SE RDSUs are involved with a number of accredited
  research courses. Eg
• PgCert. in EBP (UoP)
• MSc in Health RD (UoP)
• PD in Nursing, Biomedical Sciences and Medical
  Imaging (UoP)
• MSc Research Methods (UoS)
• Health Sciences Postgraduate School PhD Training
  (UoS)

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Acknowledgements

• Sophie Hyndman
• Paula Kersten
• Rob Horne
• David Crook
• Andy Alaszewski
• Bridget Carpenter
• All other SE RDSU staff

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