Development of an interprofessional and interdisciplinary collaborative research practice for clinical faculty

Figures & data

Table 1. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of the collaborative research fellowship.

Quantitative assessment of research skills before and after participation in the fellowship using a research self-efficacy scale
Category	Number of fellows reporting increased skills (n = 6)
Developing a research question	6
Choosing a study design	6
Conducting data analyses	6
Interpreting analysed data	6
Drafting a manuscript	6
Prioritising research tasks	6
Research time management	6
Overall research self-efficacy	6
Qualitative assessment of fellows’ research skills development using observation notes (excerpts are shown)
At the end of one meeting when fellows had spent 3 hours making decisions about the lab values for one of the research projects, the fellow taking the lead on that project commented: “That was incredible we accomplished in 3 hours what would have taken 3 months otherwise.”
During the course of one seminar where odds ratios were calculated for a logistic regression model, one of the fellows commented that she “… now understood what an odds ratio meant and how to interpret such findings.” The reason for calculating and reporting confidence intervals was commented on as well once understanding was reached, as one fellow commented “… so confidence intervals surround the estimate or odds ratio and close intervals are good [because they indicate a stable estimated effects size].”