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Save the Dates: Saskatchewan Health Research Showcase 2021

Mark your calendars and save the dates (November 16 & 18, 2021) for the 2021 Saskatchewan Health Research Showcase! Watch for additional details coming soon!

Click to see the Save the Dates card.

Mark your calendars and save the dates (November 16 & 18, 2021) for the 2021 Saskatchewan Health Research Showcase! Watch for additional details coming soon!

Click to see the Save the Dates card.

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Coffee Breaks are for the Dogs

To maintain and enhance the relationships amongst our staff in our new virtual world, we've established bi-weekly "coffee breaks" where we have an opportunity, to spend time with one another to focus on non-work topics! We take turns hosting, and that in itself has revealed much about the personalities of each person. Some prefer to keep it casual, and let the conversation flow naturally. Others come prepared with questions, games or quizzes. And last month, we were joined by two special guests!

Read about these PAWSitive additions to SCPOR's coffee break!

For additional information, visit the USask online therapy dog program.

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SCPOR rePORt: May, 2021

In this month's newsletter, you'll learn how to register for an event on PROMs & PREMs, find opportunities to engage in patient-oriented research, hear stories of research taking place in our province and more!

SCPOR rePORT: May 2021

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Family relationships sustain us

https://vimeo.com/509560947

Produced by the SK LTC Network in partnership with SPA-LTC, 2021

The SK LTC Network is a group of family members, researchers, clinicians, and trainees that contribute evidence- and experience- informed strategies to support long-term care stakeholders.

Strengthening a Palliative Approach in Long-Term Care (https://spaltc.ca) is an approach that emphasizes quality of life for people with life-limiting illnesses living in long-term care. This approach emphasizes strong resident, family, and staff communication about the needs of the whole person.

SK LTC Network and SPA-LTC worked in partnership to produce this video as a reminder of the significance of family relationships to health and wellbeing. We share the belief that fostering strong resident, family, staff, and decision-maker relationships is integral to the pandemic response and recovery process.

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Picker Gold Challenge Grants for Residency Training

The Picker Gold Graduate Medical Education (GME) Challenge Grant Program provides 18-month grants to support the research and development of innovative projects within the graduate medical education setting, designed to facilitate successful patient-centered care initiatives. Our goal is to help physicians incorporate practices that bring patient needs and wishes into the center of all healthcare interactions.

Click here to learn more. Application Deadline: May 12, 2020

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SCPOR and University of Regina Call for Trainee Funding

The University of Regina and SCPOR are pleased to announce an opportunity to apply for matching trainee funding. The purpose of these awards are to provide support to Undergraduate, Masters and PhD students, and to faculty supervisors from the University of Regina who demonstrate a passion for patient-oriented research.

Application Deadline: April 24, 2021. Click to learn more and apply.

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KT Canada Virtual Scientific Meeting

The 2021 KT Canada Virtual Scientific Meeting is less than three weeks away!

Theme: Developing and evaluating KT interventions for a complex health system
Date: May 5-7, 2021

You can find registration info, program at a glance and the current meeting agenda here.
The link to register is here.

Highlights:

  • Plenary talks from Drs France Légaré (Université Laval), Carl May (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) & Michael Strong (Canadian Institutes for Health Research)

  • Panel discussions on:

    • Ethics considerations in KT science & practice

    • SGBA+ considerations in KT science & practice

  • Workshop comparing IKT with engaged scholarship, mode 2 research, co-production, and participatory research

  • Access to some of the latest KT research happening nationally and internationally

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Helping health research advance in a good way

Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan and across Canada play an important role in health research. With the support and direction of SCPOR’s Indigenous Health Advisory Council, a new training course: Realizing Indigenous Rights and Responsibilities in Research (RIRRR), was developed to support this research by educating and promoting self-determination of Indigenous communities when engaging in health research.  SCPOR, along with the Indigenous Peoples’ Health Research Centre recently hosted its first session and is now offering online sessions for communities, researchers, patients and more. Initial feedback has been positive, with one participant stating that RIRRR “helped to enforce the importance of building partnerships and benefits to the community.” SCPOR encourages continued respectful research relationships with Indigenous communities through courses like RIRRR.

Learn more about RIRRR.

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University of Saskatchewan: Respiratory Research Centre Presentations

Fall Sleep Apnea Series: A Patient's Journey

Join on Thursday, November 19th from 2 - 3:15 pm for the first workshop of our fall series to address obstructive sleep apnea. This session will take a look at the sleep disorder from the patient perspective. Q&A will follow the presentaion from Dave Parkalub, OSA patient and Community Engagement Manager for the Saskatchewan Lung Association.

Fall Sleep Apnea Series: Your Questions Answered Part 1

The second fall sleep apnea session to be held on Thursday, November 26th from 2:00 - 3:15 pm will include a presentation from Dr. Robert Skomro, MD, FRCPC, Professor, and Respirologist in the Department of Respirology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. Dr. Skomro will address questions submitted from more than 800 patients, caregivers and clinicians that were submitted during our spring survey on sleep apnea in Saskatchewan.

This is the first of a two-part session to answer some of the common questions patients had about the sleep disorder and proper management and treatment. Q&A will be held following the presentation.

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