Brigham Research Education: Video Library

BRE Video Library

The Brigham Research Education Program seeks to provide the highest quality, most comprehensive education to our leaders and future leaders in basic science, clinical, and translational research.

We understand that live courses can be difficult to schedule since research teams are busy, spread across locations, and continuously welcoming new study staff who need immediate access to training. We hope that our video library helps address these barriers to learning.

Please note that you must be connected to the MGB network or VPN to view the recordings.

Below, recordings are categorized:

  • Research Operations Presentations
  • Clinical Investigation
  • Clinical Skills (Lecture Portions Only)
  • Data Management
  • Biostatistics Courses
  • Professional Development
  • Grant Writing

Research Operations Presentations

Clinical Investigation

Introduction to Clinical Research Resources at BWH is a half-day course that introduces the wide variety of clinical research resources available at BWH and MGB. Attendees will leave the course with 1) a sense of what clinical research resources are available to them at BWH/MGB, 2) contacts to reach out to for in-depth education and further support, and 3) several examples of current BWH clinical research projects/careers.

Target Audience: This course is intended for new and junior faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and advanced residents who would like to better prepare themselves to design and conduct their own clinical research studies at BWH. It is also a great resource for research staff looking to familiarize themselves with the research offices and tools available across BWH/MGB.

 

Clinical Skills (Lecture Portions Only)

The BWH Center for Clinical Investigation (CCI) offers two clinical skills courses (1. Phlebotomy and 2. EKG/Vital Signs) for BWH research coordinators, research assistants, and study staff who will be required to perform these skills for clinical research studies as part of their current role. The recordings below should be viewed prior to the in-person/hands-on portion of the course. Please email BWHResearchEd@partners.org to obtain copies of the slides/other handouts and for more information regarding the in-person/hands-on portion of each course.

 

Data Management

Biostatistics Courses

Introductory Biostatistics for Medical Researchers

2021 with Camden Bay, PhD

This four-week course is led by Camden Bay, PhD, Biostatistician at Harvard Catalyst/BWH Center for Clinical Investigation. The course is designed as a refresher for those who have already taken a college-level introductory biostatistics course and should help researchers identify where they may need support from a professional biostatistician on their projects.

  • Session 1 | Intro & Descriptive Statistics | October 6, 2021 | email BWHResearchEd@partners.org for slides
  • Session 2 | Probability Theory | October 13, 2021 | email BWHResearchEd@partners.org for slides
  • Session 3 | Inference | October 20, 2021 | email BWHResearchEd@partners.org for slides
  • Session 4 | Study Design | October 27, 2021 | email BWHResearchEd@partners.org for slides

 

2018 with Robert Goldman, PhD

This weekly seminar of six weeks is led by Robert Goldman, PhD – Professor of Statistics, Graduate School for Health Sciences, Simmons University. Dr. Goldman’s interests and publications are in the area of statistical education. He has written several statistical textbooks and was an organizer of a series of conferences on statistics education.

 

Intermediate Biostatistics for Medical Researchers

2021 with Camden Bay, PhD

This four-week course is led by Camden Bay, PhD, Biostatistician at Harvard Catalyst/BWH Center for Clinical Investigation. The unifying theme of these seminars is fitting models to data. The series will focus on simple regression models, multiple regression modeling, and logistic regression. The course is designed as a refresher for those who have already taken a college-level intermediate biostatistics course and should help researchers identify where they may need support from a professional biostatistician on their projects.

  • Session 1 | Correlation & Simple Linear Regression | April 1, 2021
  • Session 2 | Simple & Multiple Linear Regression | April 8, 2021
  • Session 3 | Multiple Linear Regression Continued | April 15, 2021
  • Session 4 | (Binary) Logistic Regression | April 22, 2021

 

2018 with Robert Goldman, PhD

This weekly seminar of four weeks is led by Robert Goldman, PhD – Professor of Statistics, Graduate School for Health Sciences, Simmons University. Dr. Goldman’s interests and publications are in the area of statistical education. He has written several statistical textbooks and was an organizer of a series of conferences on statistics education. The unifying theme of these seminars is fitting models to data. The series will focus on simple regression models, multiple regression modeling, and logistic regression.

 

Advanced Biostatistics

Advanced Biostatistics is a four-seminar series on advanced biostatistics approaches. The seminar was taught by John Orav, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Biostatistics), Harvard Medical School. Each of the four sessions focused on a different theme with emphasis on concepts and realistic examples rather than statistical theory. The goal of the course was to demonstrate advanced statistical approaches to questions explored by medical researchers.

 

Topics in Biostatistics

Topics in Biostatistics is a four seminar series for investigators and research staff taught by Bernard Rosner, PhD – Professor of Medicine (Biostatistics), Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Topics include designing databases, categorical analysis, survival analysis, and more.

Professional Development

How to Be the Boss: Solutions & Strategies for Researchers

Brigham and Women’s Hospital is proud to offer How to be the Boss: Solutions and Strategies for Researchers, an 8-session career development series which provides faculty and others managing research programs with the opportunity to learn about professionalism, employment law, performance management, hiring, and unconscious bias in the workplace. Participants will gain skills and tools to successfully manage productive research program staff and promote a positive environment and just culture.

 

  • Session 1 | Becoming the Boss Panel | moderated by Paul Anderson, MD, PhD | September 18, 2018
  • Session 2 | Professionalism | Jo Shapiro, MD | November 13, 2018
  • Session 3 | Identifying & Hiring Your Team | Jessica Pham | November 29, 2018
  • Session 4 | Managing Performance & Behavior | January 23, 2019 | no recording: discussion-based
  • Session 5 | Employment Law 101 | Joshua Abrams, JD | February 21, 2019 | no recording: discussion-based
  • Session 6 | Immigration Law 101 | Noel Palatas | March 6, 2019
  • Session 7 | Recommendations & References | Melissa Brennan, JD | May 24, 2018
  • Session 8 | Unconscious Bias | Kathryn Rexrode, MD | June 20, 2018 | no recording: discussion-based

Grant Writing

The Art & Anatomy of Writing a Career Development Grant

This course is designed for faculty, fellows, and other novice grant writers who are applying for career development (K grant) funding. The course will provide an overview and resources for your grant submission. Topics include: What are Ks and which one is right for you?; The Art of Writing, Career Development Plans; Specific Aims; Significance and Innovation; Data Analysis Plans; Biosketches, Resources & Environment; Identifying Funding Sources; Budgets; and The Review Process.

For the December 2021 version of the course, participants should view the presentations below from the 2020 course before attending the live portion. The live portion will kick off with a short introductory presentation followed by an open Q&A/discussion with experts across our system.

 

  • December 2020 Agenda
  • Day 1 | December 8, 2020 | email BWHResearchEd@partners.org to request slides
    • Note: “What are K’s and Which One is Right for You?” was not recorded in 2020, but will be presented live at the 2021 virtual course
    • Note: “Specific Aims & Abstract” was not recorded in 2020, but has since been recorded – access here
  • Day 2 | December 9, 2020 | email BWHResearchEd@partners.org to request slides
    • Note: “The Art of Writing” was not recorded in 2020

Explore more recorded content across Brigham & Women’s Hospital at the BWH Video Library created by the BWH Audiovisual (AV) Team. 

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