Engage, Discover, Change: Putting a Research Strategic Plan into Action
Bibliographic record
Abstract
CONTEXT: Our Department of Family Medicine (DoFM) completed a research strategic planning process in 2019. Four research strategic goals were identified, to: build research capacity; demonstrate impact; make research meaningful to the practice of family medicine; and build meaningful engagement. Arising from these goals, eight strategic objectives were developed. An operational plan was needed to put the strategic objectives into action. OBJECTIVE: To develop a plan to operationalize the research strategic objectives. DESIGN: Participatory action approach. PARTICIPANTS/ SETTING: Faculty and staff in the DoFM, University of Alberta. INTERVENTION/ INSTRUMENT: From January 2020 to March 2021, the DOFM implemented an initiative to facilitate engagement necessary to operationalize the vision, mission, goals and objectives of the research strategic plan. A Research Leadership Team was formed and a Special Projects Coordinator was hired to guide the process. The process involved the establishment of five Working Groups: Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH); Research Engagement; Research Knowledge & Skills; Foster a Research Culture; and Work Smarter. Working Groups met to develop a set of actions for the respective strategic objectives. OUTCOMES/RESULTS: The main deliverables of the Working Groups included: PCMH - identified the need to further develop the data infrastructure to better inform practice, including data resources for research and quality improvement; Research Engagement - identified opportunities to engage stakeholders, residents, patients, and community family physicians in research; Research Knowledge & Skills - prioritized staff professional development training to build capacity and strengthen the core skills needed for research/scholarship; Foster a Research Culture - identified opportunities to build collegiality and share ideas that foster research curiosity; Work Smarter - implemented a department-wide survey to identify efficiencies and streamline processes, and established a Finance Working Group and a HR Working Group to streamline operations. CONCLUSION: A strategic plan requires an action plan to operationalize the strategic objectives. A leadership team and a coordinator are essential to put the plan into action. The process strengthened the research agenda and cultivated a culture of collaboration and engagement. While the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily disrupted momentum, the plan remains robust and relevant to continue forward.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.220 | 0.128 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.037 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.031 | 0.026 |
| Open science | 0.007 | 0.036 |
| Research integrity | 0.016 | 0.027 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".