Professional Development Programs
Upcoming activities
Recent examples of workshop series and activities
Fundamentals of Scholarship
A five-part workshop series focused on enhancing core scholarship knowledge, skills and attitudes. This series covers Boyer’s Model of Scholarship, searching and finding literature, and navigating literature using reference management software. It aims to foster member exchange and form communities of practice around mutual interests and practice areas.
Topics:
- Scholarship Refined & Re-strategized
- Coffee & Conversation: Journey as a Scholar
- Navigating Published Literature using Reference Management Software
- How to Optimize Use of PubMed, Medline Ovid, EMBASE
Scholarly Writing
A six-part workshop series designed to help scholars effectively tell the story of their scholarly work. This workshop covers the foundations of scientific writing with a focus on narrative synthesis. It is tailored to support participants in applying their skills as they learn them through hands-on practice.
Participants have the opportunity to conduct and write a narrative synthesis for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
Topics:
- Are You Prepared? Common Pitfalls to Avoid
- Be Safe not Sorry: Ethics to Incorporate
- Start the Writing Process: Journey & Story
- Get it on Paper: Structuring Your Manuscript
- Make it Count: clean up, submit, respond to reviewers
Evidence Synthesis
A six-part workshop series designed to introduce scholars to research methods that bring together all relevant information on a research question. This workshop covers the foundations of evidence synthesis in clinical and social/education science traditions to identify gaps in knowledge, establish an evidence base for best-practice guidance and help inform practitioners. It is tailored to support participants in applying their skills as they learn them through hands-on practice.
Participants have the opportunity to conduct and write an evidence synthesis protocol, which outlines the rational, hypothesis and planned methodology.
Topics:
- Aligning Review Questions & Types
- Reviewing Protocol Checklist
- Cochrane Step-by-Step
- Social Science Review Step-by-Step
- Risk of Bias
About NoP-HSS
The Network of Practice in Health Science Scholarship (NoP-HSS) actively recruits individuals, teams of health professionals, educational units, departments, schools, and other CoPs from diverse regions. These partnerships herald a new era of interconnectedness and shared learning and resources.
By uniting a broader array of expertise and assets, this network enhances the collaborative capacity, ensuring that each member can access a richer pool of knowledge, skills, and tools.
This collective approach maximizes the impact of individual contributions, fosters innovation, and ensures a more robust, sustainable approach to addressing global health education challenges.
