EBC8101 - News

March 26

Thanks for participating to the Zoom meeting. It was good to see your faces again!
Following today's discussion:

All deadlines are postponed by one week (in red below)
The peer reviewers (3 or 4) for each presentation are now assigned on the course's Google Sheet (no longer anonymous).
The deadline for TCPS2 certification is postponed to May 6.

March 25

Presentations

6 our of 7 people who provided preferences selected option 1, i.e., upload and asynchronous evaluation of the presentations, so this is what I'm implementing here.
Please download and watch the revised presentation instructions, which contains audio explanations, as well as hints to produce your 25-minute presentation.
By April 8, end of day: Upload your presentation to the cloud and add the URL to our Google Sheet page.
By April 10, end of day: Evaluate, using the provided SurveyMonkey form, the 3 presentations assigned to you on our course's Google Sheet.

More info during the Zoom meeting tomorrow 14:30!

March 15

The NVivo tutorial on March 19 is cancelled.
No invited lecture on March 26.
No physical presentations on April 1-2. To be done online.
The deadlines for the SLR remain the same:
- April 22: Literature review emailed to colleague, the TA and me.
- April 25: Literature review evaluation emailed to author, the TA and me
- April 29: Literature review submitted to supervisor(s) and me
- May 6: Supervisor grade emailed to me

March 12

Invited talk - Prof. Agnes Grudniewicz (Telfer)

Presentation: Primary and Integrated Care
A. Grudniewicz et al. (2018) ‘Complexity-compatible’ policy for integrated care? Lessons from the implementation of Ontario's Health Links. Social Science & Medicine 198:95-102.

Towards the Ph.D.

February 22

This Thursday (Feb. 27), I am giving a talk on Modeling in Healthcare: Requirements and Clinical Processes (presentation)

To read before for the lecture on February 27:

Almoaber, B. and Amyot, D. (2017) A Review on the Contribution of Emergency Department Simulation Studies in Reducing Wait Time. Int. J. of E-Health and Medical Communications, 8(3), 1-21, IGI Global.

March 5: No class (postponed to April 1)

February 8

Revised presentations on Research ethics and academic integrity, and on Presentation and SLR report evaluation instructions, for Thursday
To read before for the lecture on Feb. 14

Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (2018), chapters 3 to 5.
uOttawa's Office of Research Ethics and Integrity, especially the mandate and duties of the REB, and the submission process and forms. If you need to do surveys in your research, look at the corporate survey tool (SurveyMonkey).
This is also a good time to finalize your TCPS 2 Tutorial Course on Research Ethics (CORE) (4 people completed it so far)

Reminder: Do not forget this requirement (6 marks): Questions on material to be read (preparation for the next class, not past ones!) must be emailed to me and the TA before class (three times, at least two relevant and important questions each time). Get rid of this requirement sooner than later! 3/12 have completed it so far.

January 31

April 1 lecture (presentations) confirmed, 13:00-16:00, CRX C309
Evan's presentation on Covidence and search engine workarounds
New version of the presentation on Writing and publishing papers
To read before for the lecture on Feb. 6

Borja, A. (2014) Six things to do before writing your manuscript - Part 1. Elsevier Connect, Career Advice.
Borja, A. (2014) 11 steps to structuring a science paper editors will take seriously - Part 2. Elsevier Connect, Career Advice.
And these Elsevier Publishing Tips:
- de Hon, F. (2015) From submission to sharing: the life cycle of an article. Elsevier Connect.
- Blocken, B. (2017) 10 tips for writing a truly terrible journal article. Elsevier Connect.
- van Hilten, L. (2015) 3 top tips for responding to reviewer comments on your manuscript. Elsevier Connect.
Not mandatory, but a great use of your time (and of your supervisor's!)

Common Errors in Student Research Papers, Experimental Biosciences Resources, Rice University
Organizing Your Social Sciences Research Paper: Common Grammar Mistakes, USC Libraries - Research Guides

January 24

New version of the presentation on Peer reviewing scholarly papers
Evan will give a tutorial on Covidence in class from 14:30 to 15:30. Bring your laptop!
March 5 lecture cancelled.
April 1 PM lecture for mini-presentations confirmed.
To read before for the lecture on Jan. 30

Hames, I. (2013) COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers. COPE Council.
Pain, E. (2016) How to review a paper. Science, AAAS.
Wilson, J. (2012) Peer Review: the nuts and bolts. Sense about Science.
Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality Agreement for Review Committee Members, External Reviewers, and Observers (page 1). Government of Canada.

Not mandatory, but a great use of your time (for Jan. 31)

Alpert, J. (2012) 10 tips for reviewing scientific manuscripts – and 5 red flags. Elsevier Connect.
Lucey, B. (2014) 10 tips from an editor on undertaking academic peer review for journals. Elsevier Connect.

January 11

New version of the presentation on systematic literature reviews
To read before for the lecture on Jan. 16

Okoli, C., Schabram, K. (2010) A Guide to Conducting a Systematic Literature Review of Information Systems Research. Sprouts: Working Papers on Information Systems, 10(26)
Kitchenham, B., Charters, S. (2007) Guidelines for performing Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering. Version 2.3; EBSE Technical Report EBSE-2007-01

To glance at before the lecture on Jan. 16. These are sample systematic literature reviews, some published as a result of EBC8101 reports!

Kitchenham, B., Brereton, O.P., Budgen, D., Turner, M., Bailey, J., Linkman, S. (2009) Systematic literature reviews in software engineering – A systematic literature review, Information and software technology 51 (1), 7-15
Nery, P.B., Belliveau, D., Nair, G.M., Bernick, J, Redpath, C.J., Szczotka, A., Sadek, M.M., Green, M.S., Wells, G., Birnie, D.H. (2016) Relationship Between Pulmonary Vein Reconnection and Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence. JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, 2(4), 474-483
Almoaber, B., Amyot, D. (2017) Barriers to Successful Health Information Exchange Systems in Canada and the USA - A Systematic Review. Int. J. of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics, 12(1), 44-63
Horkoff, J., et al. (2017) Goal-oriented requirements engineering: an extended systematic mapping study. Requirements Engineering
See also other literature reviews produced in EBC8101/8102

Here is the protocol template that will be used to submit and peer-evaluate your protocol.

This guide to creating research questions (R. Feldt, 2010) might also be useful

Here is the form for peer-reviewing the protocol of another student

New presentation on SLR protocols
To read before for the lecture on Jan. 23

Adler, R., Ewing, J., Taylor, P. (2008) Citation Statistics. A report from the International Mathematical Union (IMU) in cooperation with the International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_impact

To glance at before the lecture on Jan. 23

Meho, L.I. (2007) The Rise and Rise of Citation Analysis. Phys. World 20(1), 32. Preprint.
Garfield, E. (1979) Is citation analysis a legitimate evaluation tool? Scientometrics, 1(4), 359-375
Zhu, X. Turney, P.D., Lemire, D., Vellino, A. (2015) Measuring academic influence: Not all citations are equal. JASIST 66(2): 408-427

January 9, 2020

Literature searching for your SLR, by Evan Sterling, EBC Librarian
As of next week, the course will be in DMS 9161

December 29, 2019

Syllabus available

No manual needed. PowerPoint presentations and papers will be made available online.

To read before the first lecture on Jan 9, 2020.

Previous years' presentations

by Agnieszka Szczotka (librarian, 2018): Systematic Reviews - Searching the literature.
by Anne Le-Huu Pineault (librarian, 2019): Introduction to the library resources and SLRs

Hunter, L.K. (2014) A Primer on Showing Empathy in the Tech Industry - How to really be excellent to each other.

Many good advice from a software engineer about how I would like us to behave in class this semester.

Phelps, R., Fisher, K. & Ellis, A. (2007) Effective Literature Searching. In R. Phelps, K. Fisher, & A. Ellis (Eds.) Organizing and Managing Your Research. (pp. 128-150). London, England: SAGE Publications, Ltd.
Papaioannou, D., Sutton, A., Carroll, C., Booth, A., & Wong, R. (2010). Literature searching for social science systematic reviews: consideration of a range of search techniques. Health Information & Libraries Journal, 27(2), 114-122.

The docs directory contains the presentations and many of the papers from last year (many will be updated this year). Username and password to be provided by email.
Research guides and librarians
Online TCPS 2 Tutorial Course on Research Ethics (CORE)

Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2)
Covers many situations relevant to Canada's Tri-Council (NSERC in sciences/engineering, CIHR in health, SSHRC in social sciences)
Use your @uOttawa email to do this tutorial.
Available in English and French.
Many questions propose 3 scenarios or contexts (sciences/engineering, health, social sciences); you can explore the category (or categories) of your choice at each question.
Be ethical... Do the exercise seriously (probably takes 5-6 hours in total).
To be done any time this semester (the sooner the better, but no later than April 19). Email me the certificate when you have completed the eight required modules, and keep a copy preciously!