ID-5184 Wonca Abstracts supplement A-K 13-10-23 - Flipbook - Page 327
WONCA 2023 Supplement 1: WONCA 2023 abstracts (A–K)
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Let’s get started: Planning your research project in
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Dr Margaret Kay1, A/Prof Jill Benson2, Dr Shaun Prentice3
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The University of Queensland, 2University of Adelaide, 3The Royal Australian College of
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Curiosity is an essential ingredient for the practice of family medicine. Skills to enable more formal
research in primary care can be challenging for family physicians to acquire. Identifying the
opportunities for developing these skills outside of a formal academic environment can be difficult.
Both established family physicians and those in training can be tentative in taking their early steps in
research and overwhelmed by what can appear to be a complex space. Yet clinician-led research in
primary care has great benefits for improving the care delivered to our community.
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This interactive session will build practical skills necessary for primary care research, demystifying the
research process and enabling the novice clinician researcher to embark on their journey.
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The workshop covers five key steps of a research project:
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Crafting your research question and the argument for its importance
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Deciding what data to collect and how to approach this
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Applying for ethical clearance
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Understanding the different techniques for data analysis
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Making sense of the findings
This session will cover literature reviews, and quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods approaches.
Experienced researchers will lead this workshop with participants in small groups having the
opportunity to design their own research.
Participants are encouraged to bring their ideas about what they would like to research, however
formative these ideas are. As clinician-researchers, the presenters recognise the importance of
research that emerges from clinical practice in advancing our understandings and directly benefiting
our patients.
The five steps are designed to scaffold potential publications that emerge from completed research
projects so that this broader vision is maintained throughout the design process.
Recognising the increasing interest in doctors’ health research in recent times, the presenters aim to
use their expertise in this field as they illustrate each step in the process.
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