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Faculty Development for Research Capacity Building

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Faculty Development in the Health Professions

Part of the book series: Innovation and Change in Professional Education ((ICPE,volume 11))

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Faculty development has a central, if perhaps underappreciated, role to play in research capacity building . While many faculty members and students develop research skills through formal graduate degrees, including Masters and PhD programs, faculty development programs can help to extend the research skills of those who have already undertaken graduate studies and develop these skills in individuals for whom a formal graduate program is not an option. This chapter reviews evidence from the literature about effective approaches to research capacity building through faculty development, with a focus on innovative approaches and case studies of successful programs.

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Acknowledgements

 The author would like to acknowledge Elisa Hollenberg for support in the literature search and formatting of the manuscript and references. Thanks also to Yvonne Steinert, David Irby and Pat O’Sullivan for very helpful comments and suggestions.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Brian Hodges MD, Ph.D., FRCPC

  2. University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Brian Hodges MD, Ph.D., FRCPC

  3. Wilson Centre for Research in Education, Health Professions Education Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Brian Hodges MD, Ph.D., FRCPC

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    Yvonne Steinert

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Hodges, B. (2014). Faculty Development for Research Capacity Building. In: Steinert, Y. (eds) Faculty Development in the Health Professions. Innovation and Change in Professional Education, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7612-8_4

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