RI-MUHC: Clinical Research Educator, CANTRAIN

Job Description

RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MUHC
The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) is a world-renowned biomedical and hospital research centre. Located in Montreal, Quebec, the Institute is the research arm of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. The RI-MUHC is supported in part by the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé (FRQS).

CANTRAIN is a national clinical trial training program (CTTP) created in response to a call by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR). Its vision is to transform how Canadians are prepared to develop, conduct, engage in and benefit from clinical trial research. Its mission is to develop clinical trial research competency through an efficient training environment delivering cutting-edge, inclusive educational curricula.

CANTRAIN is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from Black, Indigenous and racialized people, people of all gender identities and sexual orientations, and people with disabilities. CANTRAIN also recognizes the need for experience, knowledge and guidance from communities disproportionately affected by chronic or rare diseases.

Position summary
The CRE utilizes adult learning principles and instructional strategies to adapt, create, implement, and evaluate CANTRAIN educational programs. These programs aim to enhance clinical research competency, achieve high standards of regulatory compliance, facilitate ongoing clinical research professional development, and effectively engage with patients and community partners in clinical research.

CANTRAIN educational offerings are designed to cater to the diverse learning needs and preferences of post-graduated students, clinical research professionals, clinician researchers and patient and community partners. The CRE contributes to the ongoing clinical research educational program development and implementation, and addresses the multifaceted responsibilities inherent in different clinical research settings.

The role requires advanced clinical research knowledge, well-developed content writing skills and experience designing educational courses and programs.

General Duties

• Apply appropriate adult learning principles and instructional strategies to adapt, create and implement learning modules and materials pertaining to clinical research for adult learners from diverse backgrounds.
• Create course/module outlines, syllabi, learning objectives, etc. on a variety of topics in clinical research for different types of learners in different settings, including but not limited to academic health research centres, health authorities, etc.
• Design associated educational activities, formative and summative assessments for different types of learners that are appropriate to the educational goals of the course and program.
• Utilize a variety of knowledge transfer strategies to support integration of knowledge into practice.
• Evaluate and modify educational content in order to enhance learner engagement and content mastery.
• Collaborate with other members of the training stream team and subject matter experts (SMEs) to curate, adapt and create educational material pertaining to clinical trial conduct and professional skills.
• Conduct learning needs assessments for diverse adult learners and clinical research roles, including post-graduated students, clinical research professional, clinician researchers and the public, Analyse and interpret the assessment results.
• Support the implementation of the CANTRAIN training programs at clinical research sites.
• Provides leadership to promote the educational program incorporating best practices, compliance with standards, guidelines, laws and requirements of regulatory agencies, credentialing agencies and professional organizations.

Program Implementation:

• Navigate CANTRAIN’s learning management system (LMS) to streamline and oversee the learner registration, learning path undertakings and provide support to learners as needed,
• Coordinate, implement and facilitate the delivery of CANTRAIN educational offerings for all training streams through the LMS at different clinical research sites as needed,
• Collaborate with institutional clinical research leadership to identify institutional training needs and target learning outcomes.
• Identify relevant institutional guidelines, protocols, policy and procedures and integrate CANTRAIN’s educational offerings to the institutional training system/programs.
• Foster the development of teaching skills in others as well as support educational needs assessment.
• Serve as a resource to all departments in the development of specific processes or training approaches to enhance learning and mastery.

Program Evaluation & Improvement:

• Supports program evaluation by adopting both qualitative and quantitative methods to identify the best practices and gaps for program improvement.
• Provides analytic feedback to CANTRAIN leadership to surface institutional concerns, needs or requirements for ongoing program improvement, including LMS implementation and training program quality, communication issues.
• Implements a consultation process to meet the needs of internal stakeholders and institutional strategic goals pertaining to clinical research education and training.
• Informs the clinical research community or institutions leadership of the effect and impact of CANTRAIN educational offerings with a supportive manner.