Year One Resources

Objectives and Requirements

• Scholarly training objectives and requirements for paediatric residents in Canada

• Proposed Expectations and Timelines Checklists

1. How to develop a research question

• Podcast 1: How to find a good question in the real world?

• Podcast 2: How to find a good question at bedside?

• The willingness to risk failure – advise to early career investigators PMID 35046542

2. How to choose a mentor

Podcast 3: Good mentorship paves pathway to success in academia

• Mentoring, coaching, supervising: what’s the difference? PMID 34588650

• Identifying and Aligning Expectations in a Mentoring Relationship PMID 22212226

• Choosing the Right Mentor – Mentee Missteps: Tales From the Academic Trenches PMID 28170482

• Choosing the Right Mentor Part 2 – A piece of my mind. Mentorship Malpractice PMID 27115263

• Learn How to Identify and Become a Good Mentor - Professional skills. The merits of training mentors PMID 16439648

• Fundamentals of Mentoring: Three Steps to a Mentee-Driven Relationship PMID 31008219

3. Hypothesis / DAG

Podcast 4 and Podcast 5:

• Thinking clearly about correlations and causation: graphical causal models for observational data

• Directed acyclic graphs: a tool for causal studies in paediatrics. PMID 29967527

• Causal Directed Acyclic Graphs PMID 35226050

• Evidence synthesis for constructing directed acyclic graphs (ESC-DAGs): a novel and systematic method for building directed acyclic graphs PMID 31325312

• Causal Directed Acyclic Graphs PMID 35226050

• Choosing an analytical design for your research question – Prediction or Causal?

• Assessing the performance of prediction models: a framework for some traditional and novel measures PMID 20010215

  Descriptive Epidemiology

• A Framework for Descriptive Epidemiology PMID 35774001

• On the Need to Revitalize Descriptive Epidemiology PMID 35325036

  Casual Epidemiology

• Causal Models and Learning from Data PMID 24713881

• The Epidemiologic Toolbox: Identifying, Honing, and Using the Right Tools for the Job PMID 32207771

• A Second Chance to Get Causal Inference Right: A Classification of Data Science Tasks DOI 10.1080/09332480.2019.1579578

4. Search Stratigies

• Podcast 6: How to scan a paper

• Tips/tricks for search engines

• Librarian resources and contacts

• ACCESSSS

• Video: To p-value or not to p-value?

5. Critical Appraisal 101 - interpreting the results from statistical analysis

Inclusion Criteria

• Design principles for data analysis. Lucy D'Agostino McGowan et al.

• 7. EDI - Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

• Podcast: SERious EPI - S1E15: The pool is big enough for all of us: Representativeness with Dr. Jonathan Jackson

6. Database management

Podcast 9: Data mining in epidemiological research

• The Urgency of Justice Research: Beyond COVID-19 PMID 33277159

• University of Manitoba Indigenous Health resources - BRAID

7. Experience from previous residents with research

Level One - introduction to basic biostatistics

• Statistics Training Videos