The NIH Office of Intramural Training & Education (OITE) will host a seminar about the scope of the suicide crisis in our nation and around the world. Discussion will include suicide in the biomedical research community and how the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to increase suicide risk.

In the small groups, the OITE will have the opportunity to develop and practice skills to assist participants in communicating with someone who may be experiencing suicidal ideation; how to make connections and get help for the individual. The webinar and small group discussions are open to students, fellows, staff and faculty at NIH, universities and research institutions.

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The Children’s Research Institute Lecture Series encourages interaction between researchers investigating childhood diseases, and stimulates new research through exposure to cutting-edge, ongoing work.

Betsy Sleath, PhD's research focuses on provider-patient communication in the areas of asthma, ADHD, diabetes, and glaucoma, engaging children and parents more in medication discussions during pediatric visits, and improving patient medication adherence and other health outcomes through interventions

Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for web conferencing options to attend this seminar.

Presenter

Betsy Sleath, PhD
Director of Child and Adolescent Health Program, Cecil G Sheps Center
UNC-Chapel Hill

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This is an online 3-part short course (held over three afternoons - 10/6, 10/7, and 10/8). Stata part 1 will offer an introduction to Stata basics. Part 2 will teach entering data in Stata, working with Stata do files, and will show how to append, sort, and merge data sets. Part 3 will cover how to perform basic statistical procedures and regression models in Stata..

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Writing effectively is one of the most valuable skills. It can help get you into graduate school and get through it successfully, get a job, get promoted - and it helps you share your ideas, regardless of one’s vocation. Writing can give us all of this and more, yet most of us procrastinate and avoid it. Wouldn’t it be great if there were ways to have it be less stressful, easier, and more fun and productive?

Come and learn practical tips and tactics from a master writer and mentor, who also is the editor for a major journal.

Presenter

Andres De Los Reyes, PhD
Fulbright Canada Research Chair, Mental Health
University of Regina

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This is an online 3-part short course (held over three afternoons - 10/6, 10/7, and 10/8). Stata part 1 will offer an introduction to Stata basics. Part 2 will teach entering data in Stata, working with Stata do files, and will show how to append, sort, and merge data sets. Part 3 will cover how to perform basic statistical procedures and regression models in Stata..

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This six-part orientation is strongly recommended for all clinical research personnel who are new to UNC or new to research. The series will introduce research personnel to the UNC offices involved in clinical trials, discuss the federal and local regulations governing conduct of research, and provide an overview of best practices utilized in the implementation of clinical research. It is recommended that registrants complete both the CITI Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and CITI Human Subjects Protection (IRB/Ethics) modules prior to attending the orientation.

Each session of the orientation will be held on Wednesday afternoons,1:30 to 4:00 pm. Research personnel are encouraged to attend all 6 modules, but may choose to attend only those of particular interest or relevance. The topics to be covered this week include:

• Contracts and Clinical Trial Agreements (Vonzell Jones) - 1:30 - 2:10 pm
• Billing Coverage Analysis overview (Andrea Eiring ) - 2:10 - 2:50 pm
• Budgeting for Clinical Research, Accounting of Funds (Jill Cunnup) - 2:55 - 3:15 pm
• Preparing and Executing NIH Grant Budgets (Sandy Barnhart) - 3:15 - 4:00 pm

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This is an online 3-part short course (held over three afternoons - 10/6, 10/7, and 10/8). Stata part 1 will offer an introduction to Stata basics. Part 2 will teach entering data in Stata, working with Stata do files, and will show how to append, sort, and merge data sets. Part 3 will cover how to perform basic statistical procedures and regression models in Stata..

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The REDCap Forms Training Session will teach users to build forms using the online designer or data dictionary (lecture/demo).

Our current REDCap trainings are offered as webinar-only.

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About REDCap

REDCap is a secure web application that can be used to build and manage case report forms, surveys and other data capture mechanisms for clinical research. NC TraCS provides training classes to assist you in getting started with building REDCap data collection forms for your research projects.

Current REDCap training offerings include:

1. Forms (beginner)
2. Forms: Hands On (beginner)
3. Functions (advanced)
4. Open Session (Surveys and general questions)
5. Clinical Data Management (3-day)

For more information, please visit our REDCap webpage.

This interactive online workshop will focus on semi-structured interviewing, a data collection method used in qualitative research. Topics covered will include basics of semi-structured interviews, development of interview questions and probes, interviewing skills, considerations for conducting virtual interviews, and trauma-informed interviewing.

Participants will have the opportunity to practice developing interview questions and using interviewing skills.

Presenter

MaryBeth Grewe, MPH
Project Manager / Qualitative Research Specialist, Community and Stakeholder Engagement
NC TraCS Institute

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As a result of showing up every day and performing your role to the best of your ability, mistakes will happen. Everyone makes them. They may be a sign your systems and processes are flawed, or they may identify the limits of your established norms.

This seminar covers ways to problem solve, communicate, learn from and prevent mistakes, and along the way demonstrate the importance that a compassionate approach can have in empowering your team when navigating these challenges. Use of Lean Six Sigma techniques can assist you in designing, measuring and evaluating key performance indicators to help keep your projects operating in a state of control, and identify when they are not so that you can intervene early and move on.

Presenter

Julie Eckstrand, RPh
Director of Operations
Duke CTSI

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Come join the Carolina LatinX Center for an evening with Co-host and Senior producer of Code Switch, NPR's highest rated podcast, Shereen Marisol Meraji.

The theme of this year's LatinX Heritage Month, La Nueva Era, aims to recognize the changes of current realities. We are living in times unlike any other and students are the new voices and the new leaders for the future. Carolina LatinX Center has invited two incredible examples of this new era to campus and invites you to join them this October.

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The School of Medicine Clinical Research Support Office (CRSO) will host a town hall meeting to share updates on the continuing development and specific initiatives of the new office established to support human subjects research studies and teams across the SOM. John Buse, MD, PhD, Andrea Carnegie, PhD, and Laura Viera, MA, CCRP will present general information and answer questions. Attendees are asked to submit questions in advance via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. prior to October 8. Additional questions may be addressed during the meeting if time allows.

Registration is not required; Zoom link is below. Please mark your calendars.

Presenters

John Buse, MD, PhD
Director
NC TraCS Institute

Andrea Carnegie, PhD
Director, Administrative Operations
NC TraCS Institute

Laura Viera, MA, CCRP
Director, Clinical Research Operation
NC TraCS Institute

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