Title of Scholar Project Month day, year Presenter: Supervisor(s):

2. Title of Scholar Project Month day, year Presenter: Supervisor(s): Critical Care Western

3. The Problem • What is the problem you wish to address? • Why is the issue or concern important? • Have opinion leaders or societies or health organizations expressed interest in the question? (new guidelines? Editorials? Presentations?) • Is there new evidence of harm? • Is there new evidence of benefits? • Has there been recent public attention brought to the issue? • To whom is this issue/concern important? (physicians? nurses? patients? hospital admin? the public?) Presentation Title Here

4. The Literature • What have you been able to surmise from the literature? • Who else has addressed the issue (or is currently addressing the issue) and what has been done? • Is there a systematic review describing the state of the evidence with respect to your specific problem (if not, this may be your first step) Presentation Title Here

5. The Question or Objective • Given the problem posed, what question do you wish to answer? Be specific! • Articulate a clear study question or project objective by describing • who is involved (participants) • what will be done (intervention) • what will be achieved (outcome) Department Here

6. Hypothesis • In one sentence, turn your study question into an answer (your hypothesis). Try to use the exact same wording regarding the participants, intervention and expected outcome. Department Here

7. Category / Methods • Given your objective or question, what category of scholarly work best describes your project? • Within that category, what methodology best fits your objective? • Examples: • QI project – PDSA cycle, audit • Research project – meta-analysis • Qualitative research – grounded theory analysis Department Here

8. Methods (Detailed Methods: 1-3 slides) • Study Design: in one sentence describe the study design you wish to implement (eg. Prospective observational, retrospective chart review, survey, systematic review of the literature, guideline /protocol development, etc.) • Study Participants: who are the subjects? • Study Site(s): where are the participants? • Interventions: 1-2 sentences describing intervention(s) • Outcome measure(s): describe your primary outcome and the statistical method that will be used to analyze it Department Here

9. Progress to date • Does a systematic review of the literature or meta-analysis need to be done to clarify whether there is existing evidence to answer your question? Will you be doing a systematic review? • Is ethics approval required for your project (yes or no); If yes, have you submitted for ethics approval? Have you received ethics approval? • Is approval necessary and have you received it from clinical practice committee, research and education committee, CRIC? Department Here

10. Questions / Concerns: • Are there any potential threats to successful completion of this project? • Examples: • Recruitment of participants • Complexity of intervention • Lack of sufficient early studies/ background data • What specific questions do you have for the group at this time? Critical Care Western