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Table 1 Responsibilities, skills and attributes for facilitating the research process

From: Research capacity-building for clinicians: understanding how the research facilitator role fosters clinicians’ engagement in the research process

Responsibilities

Skills

Attributes

• Working with clinicians as novice researchers to help them develop research proposals

• Simplifying the research process

• Answering general questions about research

• Discussions with clinicians about what they learned in the lecture meant for their study

• Improving practice ideas and concepts into study

• Breaking down projects into feasible ones

• Providing support on how to formulate research questions, identify gaps, choose suitable study methods

• Working with groups with different levels of research knowledge

• Keeping participants on track

• Research facilitators as resources: linking up with people, linking to appropriate resources

• Experience in research design and the fundamentals of conducting a research project

• Qualitative or quantitative research design experience

• Completing ethics, hospital ethics

• Research project management required—budget, human resources, how to achieve each milestone in a timely manner

• Can identify issues that come up with research

• Understanding clinical research

• Ethics applications

• Grant applications

• Conduit—a link between—providing information to clinician

• “I’m not a cancer expert, but…”

• Understanding own limitations as to how the research facilitator can contribute to the group

• Overcoming the gaps in personal areas of expertise when dealing with different research groups