Framework for Delivery of Orientation Activities
Many initiatives at CU Anschutz, including the DOM Research Listening Tour, have identified campus complexity, with no centralized way to find or navigate research resources, as a major barrier to success. A modified PECS (purpose, expectations, connections, support) model can be used to deliver orientation to available research resources across three domains: 1) Basic and Preclinical, 2) Clinical, and 3) Health Outcomes and Data/Bioinformatics research. Overall, the modified PECS model provides the unified framework for orientation activities across domains.
Purpose To provide awareness of campus research resources and how to access them
Expectations Assemble research resources and provide simple, efficient ways to find them
Connections Domain specific as detailed herein
Support Up-to-date landing page/s and online resources; concierge help
Mode of Delivery
Orientation services are vital for both new and existing faculty. One in person event per year, at the time of new faculty orientation, coupled with searchable, online navigation services could be used to deliver research resource orientation information. The few basic and preclinical researchers surveyed informally at lab meetings or in person indicated that online content would be preferred over in person orientation sessions. Online content could be disseminated via Departmental and Vice Chancellor for Research regular email communiques, through Division and Section Heads and administrators, through the Postdoctoral Office, and at existing, regularly scheduled research events (eg. Research Days, seminar series), with concierge options if more specific help is needed.
Basic and Preclinical Research Resource Domain Content
The recommended components of basic and preclinical research that should be available during orientation activities are:
1. Basic Blackboard training and prospective schedule of required refreshers (radiation safety, bloodborne pathogens, hazardous materials, etc): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/ehs/home/guidance-for-researchers/guidance-and-manuals
https://research.cuanschutz.edu/ehs/home/training
2. Office of Laboratory Animal Research (OLAR): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/olar
3. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/committee-support/home/iacuc-home
a. Hands-on IACUC trainings (not listed on website)
4. Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/committee-support/home/institutional-biosafety-committee
5. Environmental Health and Safety (EHS): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/ehs
6. SOM Core facilities (not a complete list of resources): https://researchcores.cuanschutz.edu/
7. Electronic Lab notebooks: https://research.cuanschutz.edu/university-research/labarchives
8. CU Biobank: https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/cobiobank
9. Data management resources
a. REDCap: https://cctsi.cuanschutz.edu/resources/informatics/redcap-resources
10. Statistical resources: https://coloradosph.cuanschutz.edu/research-and-practice/centers-programs/cida
11. Find potential collaborators or mentors at CU: https://profiles.ucdenver.edu/Search/default.aspx
12. Basic description of items that you should take to your DFA
Clinical Research Resource Domain Content
1. Human Research overview landing page: https://research.cuanschutz.edu/university-research/human-research#phase=/getting-started&subphase=/human-research-lifecycle-orientation
2. Regulatory training to work with human participants (HIPAA, GCP): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/comirb/home/get-help/training
3. Clinical research Support (CRS): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/crs/clinical-research-support
a. OnCore, the CU Anschutz Clinical Trials Management System (CTMS):
https://research.cuanschutz.edu/crs/clinical-research-support/oncore shttps://research.cuanschutz.edu/crs/clinical-research-support/oncore/access-training
b. Classes and hands-on training (informed consent requirements, guide to InfoEd, how to submit COMIRB applications, training for anthropometric measurements, etc): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/crs/clinical-research-support/training-education/classes-courses
4. Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/committee-support/home/institutional-biosafety-committee
5. Basic Blackboard training and prospective schedule of required refreshers (radiation safety, bloodborne pathogens, hazardous materials, etc): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/ehs/home/guidance-for-researchers/guidance-and-manuals
6. Environmental Health and Safety (EHS): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/ehs
7. IRB submissions: https://research.cuanschutz.edu/comirb/home/submission-guides
8. InfoEd (annual conflict of interest disclosure and resume/CV submission): https://era.cu.edu/
9. Office of Grants & Contracts (OGC): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/ogc
10. Clinical Translational Research Centers (CTRCs): https://cctsi.cuanschutz.edu/resources/ctrc/services
11. Clinical research Support Team (CReST): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/university-research/special-initiatives/clinical-research-support-team
12. SOM Core facilities (not a complete list of resources): https://researchcores.cuanschutz.edu/
13. Colorado center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM) Biobank: https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/cobiobank
14. Data management resources
a) REDCap: https://cctsi.cuanschutz.edu/resources/informatics/redcap-resources
b) Data sharing requests involving HIPAA: https://research.cuanschutz.edu/regulatory-compliance/home/hipaa/hipaa-home
15. Statistical resources: https://coloradosph.cuanschutz.edu/research-and-practice/centers-programs/cida
16. Find potential collaborators or mentors at CU: https://profiles.ucdenver.edu/Search/default.aspx
17. Basic description of items that you should take to your DFA
18. Add links to CHCO and UCH research landing pages
Health Outcomes and Bioinformatics Research Resource Domain Content
1. Regulatory training to work with human participants (HIPAA, GCP): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/comirb/home/get-help/training
2. Health data Compass: https://www.healthdatacompass.org/
3. ACCORDS: https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/accords
a. Biostatistics and Analytics Core
b. Economic Analysis Core
c. Mobile Health & Informatics Core
d. Practice-Based Research Network Core
e. Qualitative and Mixed Methods Core
f. Colorado Program for Patient-Centered Decisions
g. Community Engagement and Outreach Program
h. Dissemination and Implementation Program
i. Education Program
j. Research Training and Mentorship Program
k. Learning Health Systems Core and NavLab Program
l. Prevention Research Center for Family and Child Health
4. Colorado center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM) Biobank: https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/cobiobank
5. High performance computing: https://www.cuanschutz.edu/offices/office-of-information-technology/tools-services/HPC
6. Data management resources
a) REDCap: https://cctsi.cuanschutz.edu/resources/informatics/redcap-resources
b) Data sharing requests involving HIPAA: https://research.cuanschutz.edu/regulatory-compliance/home/hipaa/hipaa-home
7. Statistical resources: https://coloradosph.cuanschutz.edu/research-and-practice/centers-programs/cida
8. CU Cancer Center bioinformatics for cancer-related projects: https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/bioinformaticssr
9. Find potential collaborators or mentors at CU: https://profiles.ucdenver.edu/Search/default.aspx
10. Basic description of items that you should take to your DFA
Opportunities
In considering this project, it has become apparent that some fundamental basic and preclinical resources do not have adequate training and instruction documentation, particularly for IACUC and IBC applications. For clinical research many such opportunities exist (eg. CTSA33 presentations, standard templated language). This may be an additional opportunity for further improvements to assist basic and preclinical researchers.
Many initiatives at CU Anschutz, including the DOM Research Listening Tour, have identified campus complexity, with no centralized way to find or navigate research resources, as a major barrier to success. A modified PECS (purpose, expectations, connections, support) model can be used to deliver orientation to available research resources across three domains: 1) Basic and Preclinical, 2) Clinical, and 3) Health Outcomes and Data/Bioinformatics research. Overall, the modified PECS model provides the unified framework for orientation activities across domains.
Purpose To provide awareness of campus research resources and how to access them
Expectations Assemble research resources and provide simple, efficient ways to find them
Connections Domain specific as detailed herein
Support Up-to-date landing page/s and online resources; concierge help
Mode of Delivery
Orientation services are vital for both new and existing faculty. One in person event per year, at the time of new faculty orientation, coupled with searchable, online navigation services could be used to deliver research resource orientation information. The few basic and preclinical researchers surveyed informally at lab meetings or in person indicated that online content would be preferred over in person orientation sessions. Online content could be disseminated via Departmental and Vice Chancellor for Research regular email communiques, through Division and Section Heads and administrators, through the Postdoctoral Office, and at existing, regularly scheduled research events (eg. Research Days, seminar series), with concierge options if more specific help is needed.
Basic and Preclinical Research Resource Domain Content
The recommended components of basic and preclinical research that should be available during orientation activities are:
1. Basic Blackboard training and prospective schedule of required refreshers (radiation safety, bloodborne pathogens, hazardous materials, etc): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/ehs/home/guidance-for-researchers/guidance-and-manuals
https://research.cuanschutz.edu/ehs/home/training
2. Office of Laboratory Animal Research (OLAR): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/olar
3. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/committee-support/home/iacuc-home
a. Hands-on IACUC trainings (not listed on website)
4. Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/committee-support/home/institutional-biosafety-committee
5. Environmental Health and Safety (EHS): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/ehs
6. SOM Core facilities (not a complete list of resources): https://researchcores.cuanschutz.edu/
7. Electronic Lab notebooks: https://research.cuanschutz.edu/university-research/labarchives
8. CU Biobank: https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/cobiobank
9. Data management resources
a. REDCap: https://cctsi.cuanschutz.edu/resources/informatics/redcap-resources
10. Statistical resources: https://coloradosph.cuanschutz.edu/research-and-practice/centers-programs/cida
11. Find potential collaborators or mentors at CU: https://profiles.ucdenver.edu/Search/default.aspx
12. Basic description of items that you should take to your DFA
Clinical Research Resource Domain Content
1. Human Research overview landing page: https://research.cuanschutz.edu/university-research/human-research#phase=/getting-started&subphase=/human-research-lifecycle-orientation
2. Regulatory training to work with human participants (HIPAA, GCP): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/comirb/home/get-help/training
3. Clinical research Support (CRS): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/crs/clinical-research-support
a. OnCore, the CU Anschutz Clinical Trials Management System (CTMS):
https://research.cuanschutz.edu/crs/clinical-research-support/oncore shttps://research.cuanschutz.edu/crs/clinical-research-support/oncore/access-training
b. Classes and hands-on training (informed consent requirements, guide to InfoEd, how to submit COMIRB applications, training for anthropometric measurements, etc): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/crs/clinical-research-support/training-education/classes-courses
4. Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/committee-support/home/institutional-biosafety-committee
5. Basic Blackboard training and prospective schedule of required refreshers (radiation safety, bloodborne pathogens, hazardous materials, etc): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/ehs/home/guidance-for-researchers/guidance-and-manuals
6. Environmental Health and Safety (EHS): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/ehs
7. IRB submissions: https://research.cuanschutz.edu/comirb/home/submission-guides
8. InfoEd (annual conflict of interest disclosure and resume/CV submission): https://era.cu.edu/
9. Office of Grants & Contracts (OGC): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/ogc
10. Clinical Translational Research Centers (CTRCs): https://cctsi.cuanschutz.edu/resources/ctrc/services
11. Clinical research Support Team (CReST): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/university-research/special-initiatives/clinical-research-support-team
12. SOM Core facilities (not a complete list of resources): https://researchcores.cuanschutz.edu/
13. Colorado center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM) Biobank: https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/cobiobank
14. Data management resources
a) REDCap: https://cctsi.cuanschutz.edu/resources/informatics/redcap-resources
b) Data sharing requests involving HIPAA: https://research.cuanschutz.edu/regulatory-compliance/home/hipaa/hipaa-home
15. Statistical resources: https://coloradosph.cuanschutz.edu/research-and-practice/centers-programs/cida
16. Find potential collaborators or mentors at CU: https://profiles.ucdenver.edu/Search/default.aspx
17. Basic description of items that you should take to your DFA
18. Add links to CHCO and UCH research landing pages
Health Outcomes and Bioinformatics Research Resource Domain Content
1. Regulatory training to work with human participants (HIPAA, GCP): https://research.cuanschutz.edu/comirb/home/get-help/training
2. Health data Compass: https://www.healthdatacompass.org/
3. ACCORDS: https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/accords
a. Biostatistics and Analytics Core
b. Economic Analysis Core
c. Mobile Health & Informatics Core
d. Practice-Based Research Network Core
e. Qualitative and Mixed Methods Core
f. Colorado Program for Patient-Centered Decisions
g. Community Engagement and Outreach Program
h. Dissemination and Implementation Program
i. Education Program
j. Research Training and Mentorship Program
k. Learning Health Systems Core and NavLab Program
l. Prevention Research Center for Family and Child Health
4. Colorado center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM) Biobank: https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/cobiobank
5. High performance computing: https://www.cuanschutz.edu/offices/office-of-information-technology/tools-services/HPC
6. Data management resources
a) REDCap: https://cctsi.cuanschutz.edu/resources/informatics/redcap-resources
b) Data sharing requests involving HIPAA: https://research.cuanschutz.edu/regulatory-compliance/home/hipaa/hipaa-home
7. Statistical resources: https://coloradosph.cuanschutz.edu/research-and-practice/centers-programs/cida
8. CU Cancer Center bioinformatics for cancer-related projects: https://medschool.cuanschutz.edu/bioinformaticssr
9. Find potential collaborators or mentors at CU: https://profiles.ucdenver.edu/Search/default.aspx
10. Basic description of items that you should take to your DFA
Opportunities
In considering this project, it has become apparent that some fundamental basic and preclinical resources do not have adequate training and instruction documentation, particularly for IACUC and IBC applications. For clinical research many such opportunities exist (eg. CTSA33 presentations, standard templated language). This may be an additional opportunity for further improvements to assist basic and preclinical researchers.