Survey of Canadian Trained Internal Medicine Specialists |
1. Consent Form for Online Survey
Title of the study: A Needs Assessment: What Internal Medicine Residents Need to Learn to Manage Patients with Kidney Disease in A Competency Based Medical Education Era
Principle Investigator:
Januvi Jegatheswaran, MD
Division of Nephrology
Department of Medicine
The Ottawa Hospital
Email: jjegatheswaran@toh.ca
You are invited to consider participating in the above-mentioned research study conducted by Dr. Januvi Jegatheswaran.
Purpose of the Study: There is a recent shift towards competency-based medical education and all internal medicine residency programs across Canada adopted the Competence by Design framework. Despite this progressive change, the nephrology curriculum for internal medicine residents remains broad and vague with little to no change. To better prepare senior internal medicine trainees (post graduate year 3, 4 and 5 of training) for practice and improve patient outcomes, we want to determine the outcomes and competencies of Internal Medicine relevant to the care of patients with kidney disease and dysfunction.
Participation: Your participation will consist of answering this online survey with questions regarding internists’ practice in relation to managing patients with kidney disease.
Risks: Your participation in this study will entail you to identify the core conditions in nephrology that you believe are essential to preparing Internal Medicine specialists for practice. There are no expectations that you will share your views or answer specific questions asked in the survey.
Benefits: Your participation in this study will help inform the creation, revision and/or implementation of nephrology content and educational resources for internal medicine trainees with the goal of improving care of kidney disorders through improved education of physicians-in-training.
Confidentiality and Privacy: The survey responses are collected anonymously. All information shared in the surveys will remain strictly confidential and the contents will be used only for the purpose of the study. Only the cumulative results of the survey will be shared, and the identity of individual responses will be protected. We will not disclose your identity with anyone else or in publication.
Conservation of Data: The data collected during the survey and researchers’ notes will be kept in a secure manner in a password protected and encrypted format and saved on the primary investigator’s computer and the University of Ottawa server. Only the researchers will have access to the data. The data will be retained for 10 years by the research assistant on the University of Ottawa server and then securely deleted after.
Voluntary Participation: You are under no obligation to participate and if you choose to participate, you can withdraw from the study at any time and/or refuse to answer any questions, without suffering any negative consequences. However, due to the anonymous nature of the surveys, data cannot be withdrawn once it has been submitted.
Completion of this survey will give you the option to choose to enter for a draw to win a $100 Amazon gift card by entering your name and email address.
This study is supported by The Ottawa Hospital Department of Medicine’s Medical Education Project Grant.