Moderator: Fernanda Stumpf Tonin, H&TRC ESTeSL-IPL (Portugal) and Federal University of Paraná (Brasil)

Researchers need to communicate their research to a broad audience (i.e. scientific community, the public, funding organizations) through a wide range of channels, including scientific journals, conferences or social media. We all know communicating complex specialized findings can be challenging. This workshop will enhance participants’ skills to articulate their research and inspire audiences.

Research findings should be be published in the appropriate journals to reach the target audience, and moreover, be communicated effectively to make a real impact in their field. In this workshop, key elements that should be considered when writing a scientific manuscript will be discussed, from different perspectives, including an editor’s, a reviewer’s and an author’s perspective. Participants will also work on additional channels such as Twiter or LinkedIn to effectively communicate their research.

Speaker:

• Ellen Koster, Associate Professor, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Moderator: Marcel L Bouvy, Professor of Pharmaceutical Care, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Qualitative and quantitative research have their own merits and can be complementary. Yet, it is important to acknowledge the increasing use of qualitative methods in health services research in the past years. Pharmacy practice researchers can use qualitative approaches to understand, explain, discover, and explore both patients’ and health care practitioners’ thoughts, perceptions, and feelings. This type of research is considered inclusive, collaborative and may involve a framework of partnerships and co-production. This workshop aims to explore the concepts of qualitative research and motivate other researchers to properly use these methods in practice.

At the end of the workshop participants should better understand:

• The most commonly used qualitative research designs
• The most commonly used qualitative research methods and data analysis
• The main paradigms in qualitative studies
• The landscape and relevance of qualitative research in Pharmacy Practice

Additionally, different showcases will be presented during the workshop aiming at discussing the wide spectrum of qualitative research, the opportunities for future works and the current challenges of the field.  

Pragmatic clinical trials received increased attention within health services and pharmacy practice research in the past years, due to their ability to assess interventions in the real-world setting, with emphasis on implementation and scalability in different practice environments. This workshop aims to introduce pragmatic clinical trials research design to pharmacy practice researchers and present some recommendations for the appropriate conduction and reporting of these studies, especially because stakeholders need pragmatic studies with high methodological quality to make more assertive evidenced-based decisions.

In this workshop, participants will also have the opportunity to discuss the potential applications and trends in the use of pragmatic clinical trials in pharmacy research.

During the last 30 years, much of the pharmacy practice research has concentrated on the development and evaluation of new professional pharmacy services. However, the challenge has been to transfer the clinical, economic and humanistic benefits of those services into routine practice of pharmacists and other health care professionals. Implementation science provides a scientific approach to promote the systematic uptake of research findings and evidence-based interventions into routine practice.

This workshop will review existing implementation theories, models and frameworks and will work with case studies to apply them to the implementation of professional pharmacy services. Concepts such as barriers and facilitators for practice change, implementation strategies, implementation outcomes, and evaluation methods for implementation programs will be discussed. The main study designs used in implementation research will also be covered.

Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:

• Identify and describe key research priorities in the field of implementation science
• Identify appropriate implementation theories, models and frameworks
• Identify outcome indicators and main study designs used in implementation research
• Apply a stepwise approach for the development and evaluation of an implementation program

Collaboration is a term commonly used in research, clinical practice, and health professions education. It broadly occurs when two or more entities work together to achieve shared goals and outcomes in any level of an organizational structure. There are several key concepts relevant to collaboration, including sharing, partnership, inter-dependency, and power. In this workshop we will describe the main concepts of this field, address the benefits of collaboration, and present the examples of successful large and international collaborations in research, daily practice and education. 

Additionally, we will discuss how to enable collaboration (main skills, training) and the translation of inter-professional collaboration competencies to an international research team.