Physician Manager, Research

Canadian Medical Protective Association•Ottawa, ON

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Safe Medical Care Insights & Thought Leadership (SMCInTL) department advances the CMPA’s mission by integrating internal and external data sources, transforming evidence into novel insights, actionable knowledge, and impactful resources to support the safety of medical care. The department studies historical data to identify individual provider, team and system factors associated with medical-legal risk, researches trends, and evaluates the performance and impact of education programs. The department synthesizes evidence and disseminates its research findings by authoring reports, risk management communications, and educational materials in collaboration with other departments. The department also responds to internal and external requests for data analysis. The Evidence Synthesis Unit (ESU) contributes to the work of the Safe Medical Care Insights & Thought Leadership department by developing research questions and conducting detailed literature searches, focus group interviews, and systematic reviews to inform the direction of research strategies used to explore and analyze the medico-legal data repository of the CMPA. The team works closely with the Data Capture, Data Insights, and Knowledge Translation teams within SMCInTL to inform members, stakeholders, and the general public of ways to reduce medico-legal risk and improve patient safety. This work further provides context and background to inform and support the work of Medico-Legal Services; this can include providing briefs and detailed reports that investigate and inform the current state of clinical evidence and/or the health policy landscape. The ESU is the principal generator of peer-reviewed publications and uses the following tools: environmental scans, rapid evidence reviews, systematic literature reviews and critical appraisal using standard tools as per best practice. This team will employe qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches to analyze CMPA and external data. The Physician Manager, Research supports the development and implementation of the CMPA research plan along with the Director, Safe Medical Care Insights & Thought Leadership. The Manager ensures the successful progression of the research plan by providing strategic and proactive planning of individual staff projects and providing advice, guidance and coaching to ESU employees. The Manager works collaboratively with the Manager, Data Insight in SMCInTL to ensure assure internal consistency in the quality of research and data analysis produced by these two teams and supports the organization’s business objectives by sharing information and collaborating with multiple peers and leadership groups within the CMPA and with outside stakeholders. The Manager, ESU also engages in effective management of ESU services, resources and operations including performance management, research oversight, guidance on appropriate research strategies and methods, and mentorship on appropriate journal selection for research publication(s). The manager is also responsible for wider research-related initiatives within the CMPA, including the research portfolio associated with the Association’s EDI Strategy and expanding member data collection to effect enhanced member data analysis. Working closely with other SMCInTL leaders, this role collaborates with various cross-departmental and organizational-wide initiatives (eg. the wider SMC-EDI portfolio, Technology & Privacy, Strategic Engagement and Advocacy, Member Experience Performance & Evaluation, Medico-legal Services.)

Requirements

Medical degree (MD) and at least 10 years of experience in the provision of clinical care
Experience in formulating research questions, creating protocols, analysing data and engaging in knowledge translation.
Demonstrated experience with manuscript writing process and peer-reviewed publication process, and a track record of successful publication in peer-reviewed journals.
Demonstrated experience in developing and managing operational plans and budgets

Nice To Haves

Ideally health services research experience or administrative database research experience
Research scientist in quality improvement, patient safety and related methodologies an asset
Understanding of mixed methodology approaches is an asset

Responsibilities

Advises the Director and other internal stakeholders on appropriate healthcare research strategies to achieve departmental and corporate objectives.
Develops, monitors, and reports on the progress and implementation of the CMPA’s Research Agenda in line with corporate strategy.
Approves submission of completed research projects for publication or dissemination.
Provides ongoing feedback and reporting to the Director on achievement of plans and provides advice and insights into internal quality improvement and research targets.
Plans, develops, and manages the design and conduct of targeted research projects, assigns the projects to staff, and ensures the delivery of efficient and effective research results.
Collaborates closely with Physician Manager, Knowledge Translation in leveraging data and research insights to support members within clinical contexts.
Directs, supports, and coaches staff in the development of abstracts for scientific conferences, and the development of articles and manuscripts suitable for submission to high quality peer-reviewed journals.
Works closely with the other SMCInTL managers and the Director to identify and resolve issues.
Establishes, implements and monitors departmental measurements. Works collaboratively to create and implement an ESU performance plan. Leads the development and implementation of various tools to measure work performance and supports the development of project management tools and metrics within the team.
Contributes to the operational and strategic goals & objectives of the SMCInTL department. Oversees budgets and plans for the ESU in conjunction with the Director.
Mentors ESU team members on the development of high-quality, peer-reviewed research outputs, including but not limited to conference presentations and academic peer-reviewed journal manuscripts.
Provides ongoing direction, coaching, motivation and guidance to a cross-functional team.
Performs leadership duties such as designing job descriptions, recruiting new employees, managing employee performance, planning short and long-term initiatives, and communicating the departmental and strategic plans.
Prepares and conducts regular team meetings to maintain a team environment conducive to open communication, true collaboration and exchange of information.