Adapting data management education to support clinical research projects in an academic medical center

Abstract

BackgroundLibrarians and researchers alike have long identified research data management (RDM) training as a need in biomedical research. Despite the wealth of libraries offering RDM education to their communities, clinical research is an area that has not been targeted. Clinical RDM (CRDM) is seen by its community as an essential part of the research process where established guidelines exist, yet educational initiatives in this area are unknown.Case PresentationLeveraging my academic library’s experience supporting CRDM through informationist grants and REDCap training in our medical center, I developed a 1.5 hour CRDM workshop. This workshop was designed to use established CRDM guidelines in clinical research and address common questions asked by our community through the library’s existing data support program. The workshop was offered to the entire medical center 4 times between November 2017 and July 2018. This case study describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of this workshop.ConclusionsThe 4 workshops were well attended and well received by the medical center community, with 99% stating that they would recommend the class to others and 98% stating that they would use what they learned in their work. Attendees also articulated how they would implement the main competencies they learned from the workshop into their work. For the library, the effort to support CRDM has led to the coordination of a larger institutional collaborative training series to educate researchers on best practices with data, as well as the formation of institution-wide policy groups to address researcher challenges with CRDM, data transfer, and data sharing.

Multi-Stakeholder Research Data Management Training as a Tool to Improve the Quality, Integrity, Reliability and Reproducibility of Research

“…In a survey after five RDM courses held in 2013-2017, 77% of the respondents (n = 31) considered the course useful, and 58% said they were interested in advanced education when available (Wiljes & Cimiano, 2019). In the feedback of the four clinical RDM workshops, respondents (n = 113), who were mainly project coordinators, faculty members, and managers, expressed a need to learn RDM from many viewpoints and aspects like IPR, data security and privacy, and data curation (Read, 2019).…”

Practical considerations for a library’s research data management services: the case of the National Institutes of Health Library

“…A number of existing studies share examples of current RDM services and researcher needs (e.g., [3][4][5][6], [10]). However, the types of services needed may differ by institution and research community.…”

“…The demand for RDM services has been strong, particularly in the health sector [6]. Accordingly, health science libraries have developed a wide range of RDM services: instruction and consultation for data management plans (DMPs) [7]; training on data analysis tools and online bioinformatics application guides [8]; qualitative data analysis, data visualization, and data wrangling [9]; training on clinical data management [9,10]; developing data dictionaries and standardized data request forms [11]; and file management, assigning metadata to data, naming variables, and finding an appropriate data repository [12]. A recurring theme characterizing RDM services is collaboration among stakeholders.…”

“How Do I Do That?” A Literature Review of Research Data Management Skill Gaps of Canadian Health Sciences Information Professionals

“…One roadshow focuses on data management: "Building Your Research Data Management Toolkit: Integrating RDM into Your Liaison Work," which has its roots in a 2015 ACRL preconference workshop [3]. Read describes success in hosting library workshops for clinical researchers at New York University's Health Sciences Library [47]. These workshops were primarily attended by clinical professionals such as research coordinators, research managers, and faculty, but could be applied to library staff as well.…”