GMER
A onestop shop for all of your research and scholarship needs
What is the GME Research SharePoint Site?
Required training to be involved in a research study
What is CITI (collaborative institutional training initiative)?
A faculty member that oversees all aspects of a research QI project
What is a Principal Investigator (PI)?
The preferred data collection platform for research/QI projects.
What is REDCap?
A midwest event held by Graduate Medical Education in May each year to showcase research and scholarship in Advocate Health.
What is Scientific Day?
Only this review body can make a decision about whether a project is "Non-Human Subjects Research" (ie if a project is QI or research)
What is the IRB (Institutional Review Board)?
The average time it takes to complete a project from start to finish
What is 2 years?
The name for a popular rating scale for measuring ordinal data.
What is a Likert Scale?
A project that is meant to benefit a process, program or system
What is a quality improvement (QI)?
Prior to IRB approval, this approval is required for research or any project that uses data analytics
What is RAPR (Research Authorization Protocol Review) approval?
A document listing the variables that will be extracted from the medical record for a research or QI project
What is a data collection tool?
The use of counts and percentages to summarize data in research/QI projects
What is descriptive statistics?
A report describing the disease course of one patient. Considered "non-fiction journalism" documenting an unusual clinical situation
What is a case report?
Completion of this electronic form from the eIRB is required by each member of a study team prior to addition to any research study
What is Agree to Participate?
This is done to justify your research problem and to give sufficient background. Plays a major role in qualitative research. Hint: The Library staff helps with this
What is a literature review?
The value seperating the higher half from the lower half of a data set. An approximate average. Ex. 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9 ...value = 4.5
What is the median?
Meant to test a hypothesis and designed to contribute to generalizable knowledge
What is a research study?
When data for a project is baing shared externally outside your organization, this is needed prior to doing so
What is a Contracting and Data Sharing Agreement and/or Research Collaboration Agreement?
An experimental research design where both participants and the experimenters are unaware of which condition the participant has been assigned to.
What is double blind?
The probability that a statistical inference is caused by pure chance
What is the p-value?