Participants at the training programme .
The Primary Health Care Corporation’s (PHCC ) Research Section in the Department of Clinical Affairs and its Department of Workforce Training and Development have initiated a rolling staff research training programmeme.
The programmeme is part of PHCC’s commitment to supporting Qatar’s National Health Research Strategy (NHRS), to provide the best quality of evidence-based health care for the people of Qatar, within a knowledge-based economy. It was designed to support and equip primary care clinicians and other allied staff with the right tools and capabilities to undertake research within a multidisciplinary environment.
The main objective of this programme is to support staff to develop the skills and competencies necessary for the good conduct of high quality research. The approach is hands-on, contextualised and workshop-focused, allowing for full and active participant interactions. The course, accredited by the Qatar Council for Health Practitioners (QCHP) as a Category 1 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Activity, is designed in modules, and delivered by a partnership team of research experts and trainers drawn from Qatar’s Academic Health System (AHS) including PHCC, Weil-Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCMC-Q) and Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar. This training team provides practical, scenario-focused examples and facilitate group-based activities that allow participants to develop the skills necessary for conducting good research, including ethics and ensuring the safety and wellbeing of research participants.
By this approach, the PHCC Staff Research Training programme is designed to help meet the goals of PHCC’s Research Readiness in order to fully implement the Primary Health Care Research Strategy within the context of the NHRS.
The programmeme targets to train 100 new PHCC staff every year. Between 2015 and this year around 270 staff from different disciplines have been trained, a number of whom are already participating in research projects.
This year, PHCC also plans to provide more advanced training to some of the staff which have already been trained. In the first batch of training in 2017, 55 staff members completed their training. The second batch will undertake once-weekly five-week training at Al Thumama Health Center, starting on September 14.
