Preconference Programming

Pre-registration is required for all Preconference sessions

PR01: Place Matters: Mapping Service Areas for Population Health Improvement (Introductory GIS)
Michael Topmiller, PhD; Jessica McCann, MA; Mark Carrozza

Friday, November 18  |  8:00 am-12:00 pm

This preconference session will enhance participants’ understanding about the importance of geography to population health, give practical applications of the tools, methods, and data available for population health research and practice, and demonstrate ways in which care providers can use these resources to inform their practice. Schedule: The first half will focus on introducing population health research in primary care, describing the links between community characteristics and clinical care, and providing an overview of publicly accessible data resources and mapping tools. In the second part of the workshop, the presenter will demonstrate how to format and aggregate clinical data, upload data to specific mapping tools, and link these data to community characteristics. In the third and final part, the presenter will provide participants with data set templates so that they can aggregate their own data and upload the data to mapping tools. Audience Participation: Participants will follow along using their own computers as presenters describe real-world examples of population health research and walk through the steps of accessing tools and exploring available data sources. The audience will also create their own datasets and maps. Content to be presented: Place matters to personal and population health. Understanding the community context of patients has become increasingly important in the primary care research domain. Multiple tools can help physicians use these concepts at both the research and practice level.

Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:

  1. Define population health research in the context of primary care
  2. Use online tools to map service areas
  3. Integrate clinical data with community characteristics

Fee: $99 Please mark the appropriate box for PR01 on the Registration Form.

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PR02: How might we handle the wicked problems of health inequities differently?
Rick Botelho, MD, MRCGP, ABFM, ACLM

Friday, November 18  |  8:00 am-12:00 pm

Our dysfunctional health care systems have not been effective in reversing the wicked problems of health inequities: such as the Covid pandemic and the social determinants of health. Our piecemeal, disintegrated approaches have failed to create systemic sustainable solutions. How could we frame complex questions to co-create innovations for managing wicked problems at all levels?

Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:

  1. Engage in meta and macro-level dialogues about how to address governance, systemic and policies need to address the wicked problems of inequities
  2. Engage in meso and micro-level dialogues about how to implement community-based experiments (using the part 2 framing questions)
  3. Generate interest in developing and participating in ongoing learning communities about how to redress the wicked problem of isms and inequities

Fee: $99 Please mark the appropriate box for PR02 on the Registration Form.

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PR04: Building Research Capacity (BRC): Utilizing Research Indicators to Boost Your Department’s Effectiveness
Dean Seehusen, MPH, FAAFP; Stephen Stacey, DO; Amanda Weidner, MPH; David Schneider, MD, MSPH

Friday, November 18  | 1:00 pm-5:00 pm

The Building Research Capacity (BRC) committee has been helping departments improve their research capacity and productivity for over five years. In that time, they have developed and refined a collection of individual metrics they use to assess organizations and have combined them into a novel tool called the Instrument for Monitoring and Assessing Research Capacity (IMARC). This has been a key tool for helping research leaders make their organizations as productive as possible. When the wrong measurements are used, organizations fail to recognize the true state of their productivity, and progress flounders. In order to maximize velocity of improvement, leaders need to understand the status of their organization using the right metrics.

The workshop will present the IMARC tool, and participants will review the rationale for each metric. They will explore how to begin gathering relevant data from their own organization, and how to utilize the data to achieve their organization’s goals. Researchers will be given the opportunity to explore how to use the IMARC tool in their research.

Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:

  1. Develop a list of research indicators that reflect and enhance the mission of the learner’s organization
  2. Recognize how to use research indicators to help build research capacity and productivity

Fee: $99 Please mark the appropriate box for PR04 on the Registration Form.

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PR05: Rising Stars in Research
Meghan Gilfoyle, MSc; James Wang, MD, MS; Matthew Laird, MD, MSc; Ashley Chisholm, MSc; Ione Locher, BA; T.M. Ayodele Adesanya, MD, PhD; Elise Duwe, MD, PhD; Caitlin Davis, MD, MSc

Friday, November 18  | 1:00 pm-5:00 pm

Students, Residents, and Fellows are invited to participate in this half-day preconference session focused on career development with North America’s leading primary care researchers. The preconference will cover three areas: career development, early career networking, and reflection on the past/present/future of NAPCRG Trainees in line with the 50th Anniversary theme.

Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:

  1. On completion of this session, participants should be able to apply learned networking strategies to enhance career opportunities given that networking is important for careers in primary care research and is a crucial skill needed for trainee success and career growth.
  2. On completion of this session, participants should be able to identify methods to improve upon their upcoming job search via CV development and interaction with mentors currently active in the field.

Fee: $0 Please mark the appropriate box for PR05 on the Registration Form.

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PR06: PaCE: From Basics to Leadership: Understanding the Power of Engagement
Raymond Haeme, MS; Maret Felzien, MA; Alan Pavilanis, MD; Vivian Ramsden, PhD, RN, MCFP (Hon.); Susan Lowe; Kirk Mason, BSc, MDes Candidate

Friday, November 18  | 1:00 pm-5:00 pm

PaCE (Patient and Clinician Engagement) is a Committee of NAPCRG aimed at engaging patients/community members and their primary care providers as partners in research, advocacy, and policy. Teaching both existing and new NAPCRG members the benefits of integrating patients/community members, front-line clinicians, and communities into research efforts requires constant attention. PaCE is a growing and diverse network of patients/community members, front-line physicians and researchers which is open to all, regardless of ethnicity, race, or gender. PaCE continues to serve as a welcoming pathway to NAPCRG for patients/community members and clinicians who might never have otherwise attended. The richness that diverse, non-professional researchers contribute to primary care research opens the door to broader, more robust and readily integrated research outcomes. In this workshop, members of the PaCE Committee will present brief introductory materials about PaCE efforts, primary care research, principles of patient & community engagement, and advocacy. After this initial orientation, break-out groups will form to discuss new roles for the PaCE Committee and for new members. Each group will present a summary of their discussion and recommendations for action followed by an interactive discussion which would highlight the most commonly identified themes or areas of interest. Prior participation in PaCE programs is not required.

Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:

  1. Describe the nature and importance of primary care research
  2. Discuss the benefit of integrating patients, communities and first line clinicians in primary care research projects from start to finish.
  3. Describe opportunites for the PaCE members and community going forward.

Fee: $0 Please mark the appropriate box for PR06 on the Registration Form.

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