Grant: Training Grant: SPOR National Training Entity - LOI

CanPORT, the Canadian Patient-Oriented Research Training entity, is a Canada-wide initiative to organize, develop, and deliver both introductory and advanced training programs focused on patient-oriented research. CanPORT is led by The Ottawa Hospital, the McMaster Heath Forum, the School of Epidemiology and Public Health (SEPH) at the University of Ottawa, and its Nunavut partners. While the activities of CanPORT will be coordinated from Ottawa, they will reach across Canada to engage a range of audiences in the community of patient-oriented research. A formal and representative team of national patient-oriented research stakeholders will play a central role in identifying and examining existing training programs and materials, identifying current gaps, and developing new training programs and materials. CanPORT will build training capacity through the creation of the CanPORT Library and concentrate training efforts in 3 Areas. The CanPORT Library is a critical initiative - it will gather national and international training materials, programs, and opportunities. This map of activities will be assembled and curated to serve as an accessible and searchable source available to all stakeholders and Canadians. Importantly, it will also identify training and/or training format gaps for CanPORT to address. The 3 Areas of training are: 1) Patient and Citizen Engagement; 2) Patient-Relevant Research Methods and Designs; and 3) Policy with Population Health and Health System Perspectives. For each of these 3 priority Areas, CanPORT will develop curriculum that covers basic through to advanced topics to meet the needs and asks of the respective stakeholders. It will assemble and offer a variety of training formats to ensure flexibility, and accessibility. In addition, CanPORT will start the development of university and college level courses and curriculum aimed at both the undergraduate and graduate level.