Throughout the year, the Seminar will meet every other Tuesday afternoon starting on September 20 from 3:15 PM to 5:00 PM.
Presentation scheduling
Everyone should expect to present three times and be a primary reviewer three times over the course of the year.
TICR administrators maintain a schedule of presenters and reviewers. It is the scholar's responsibility to switch with a colleague when conflicts arise and notify TICR to update the online schedule of presentations. For each anticipated class absence, please inform your seminar leader ahead of time, and no matter the reason for missing, please submit written comments on each of the presenter’s work ahead of the meeting via the Forum for your section in the course CLE. (accessible through the sylabus link on this webpage).
Content of sessions
Sessions will generally include reviews of two scholars' protocols or other materials.
The initial sessions are for Designing Clinical Research protocols. After these initial sessions are completed, scholars should present research or products they are actively developing, which may include (but are not limited to) new protocols (complete or partial), abstracts, manuscripts, grants, and other research products, based on presenter needs. The presenter should include a brief cover memo with specific questions/areas of focus, especially if submitting a large volume of materials for review by the group. Materials should be submitted through the Forum for your section on the course CLE.
The review process structure is as follows:
- The primary presenter provides a short 2-3 minute overview of the project and main research question.
- The primary reviewer provides 5 minutes of review, including: a brief (ideally one sentence) summary and then a critique focusing on 3-5 important issues. Since everyone has read the protocol, there is no need to describe it in detail, and doing so decreases time for the discussion. Additional issues and minor edits can be addressed in writing and as time allows in discussion.
- Seminar participants actively participate in the discussion and provide their comments on the research project.
- The section leaders guide the group discussion, starting with eliciting major comments from other scholars, providing an opportunity for the presenter to respond to major comments, and then working through the protocol.
- Everyone writes additional comments as needed, embedded on the protocol or on a separate document, to give to the author.
- If you cannot attend a session, you are responsible for providing a written critique, which should be posted on the Forum for your section on the course CLE.
