Job Posting: Director of Research
The Director of Research is expected to be a leader in the area of family medicine and primary care research. She or he will report directly to the Chair of the Department of Family Medicine (DFM) and will sit on the Executive Committee of the Department of Family Medicine. The time commitment is 1 day/week (0.2 FTE). This is a three-year term that is renewable.
Vision
To maintain and further develop the research capacity and programs of the Department of Family Medicine at 平特五不中 to establish it as one of the top family medicine and primary care research sites in the world.
This will be achieved by:
- 听integrating research and clinical contexts for the optimization of academic family medicine;
- 听promoting our research training programs (clinical scholars鈥� program, MSc, PhD);
- 听enhancing the profiles of our research in Family Medicine and of the research groups and teams in the department;
- 听further developing training materials and programs to support the scholar role for residents and clinician teachers;
- 听clarifying the optimal career paths and mechanisms needed to increase the development of clinician scientists;
- 听building capacity, partnerships, and strong international research networks.
These goals will be achieved in conjunction with the Graduate Studies Division, by ensuring our research faculty are optimizing their career trajectories in terms of success in funding competitions, recognized awards and prizes, and timely career promotion. The research output of the Department and its affiliated members will be operationalized into practice through knowledge translation and exchange, to transform research findings into policy, decision-making, clinical practice and frontline care.
Summary of Responsibilities
The Director of Research will oversee the general functioning and direction of research in the Department, working in close partnership with the Chair, the administration, and other departmental leaders, to ensure that the Department of Family Medicine at 平特五不中 continues to lead primary care research nationally and is recognized internally and externally. This person will develop close contacts with the research directors and scholarly activity directors in each of our GMF-Us, therefore she or he must be functionally bilingual and willing to travel to Ch芒teauguay, Gatineau, Montreal and Val d鈥橭r.
The specific tasks of the Director of Research include:
1) Promotion of the research agenda of the department:
- 听Oversees the annual research activities of the department and submits an annual research and academic report to the DFM.
- 听Links research with graduate programs, quality improvement programs, medical training programs, and clinical activities.
- 听Operationalizes greater collaboration between the DFM and GMF-Us related to research and scholarly activity, eg. by assigning and helping integrate research faculty to an affiliated GMF-U.
- 听Identifies grant and funding opportunities, and maintains familiarity with regulations and policies affecting researchers and associated staff, and communicates them effectively and efficiently.
- 听Fosters collaborations between clinician-researchers and researchers internally, with other departments at 平特五不中, and with other research institutes, locally, provincially, and nationally.
- Promotes knowledge transfer.
- Serves as an advocate for family medicine and primary care research.
2) Administration:
- 听Chairs the Research Committee (possibly combined with the Program鈥檚 Graduate Committee).
- 听Collaborates with the different programs associated with research (Global Health, PBRN, MSc, PhD, post-doctoral fellows, Indigenous Health, etc.).
- 听Communicates with different levels of government, non-governmental agencies and industry.
- 听Engages with faculty and trainees to identify potential research priorities and foster the emergence of research themes for the department that align with the Departmental, Faculty and University Strategic Plans.
- Represents the department at national research meetings (eg. FMF, CCME).
- Contributes, in close collaboration with the graduate program directors, to the planning of the graduate research day and departmental research seminars, and attends these events.
3) Program Development:
- 听Builds links with UGME (such as developing a summer research course for medical students, a list of summer research opportunities, research trainee exchanges, UGME research training).
- 听Continues links with PGME (such as maintaining the resident scholarly activity modules, supporting the Tannenbaum fellows, participating in the Tannenbaum Research Day, collaborating with the Director of the Clinician Scholars鈥� Program).
- 听Fosters links with faculty development (such as supporting clinicians in their scholarly activities, developing an introductory online course for clinicians interested in increasing their research capabilities).
- 听Ensures that the proper services (such as PBRN) are available to researchers and clinician teachers, and that there is a clear mandate for and process for accessing these services.
- 听Augments connections with the QI program, eg. promotes the secure sharing of clinical data (clinical data research platform) that could serve for QI, residents鈥� scholarly activities, and research.
- Participates in accreditation processes (university or external reviews).
4) Mentorship:
- 听Participates in academic performance evaluation of research Contract Academic Staff.
- 听Provides guidance for the department鈥檚 academics to function as a research team.
- 听Sits on promotion and hiring committees for academic faculty for the department.
- Arranges participation by a departmental member in external research related activities/initiatives such as advisory bodies and professional associations.
- 听Promotes networking between clinicians, clinicians-researchers and researchers (for instance, mentor researchers who are embedded in GMF-U on how to better support clinicians who have research-related questions; develop a support group for clinician-researchers).
Interested individuals should send a CV and letter of interest to:
Rosa Coppola by email (acad-hr.fammed [at] mcgill.ca)
Application Deadline: Friday, March 13th, 2020
Interviews will be held in March for an expected start date of April 1st, 2020.
平特五不中 is committed to equity in employment and diversity. It welcomes applications from indigenous peoples, visible minorities, ethnic minorities, persons with disabilities, women, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others who may contribute to further diversification.
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