Project Launch
Project Launch is a multi-phased program that streamlines existing processes to enable anyone at Women’s College Hospital to initiate a research, scholarly quality improvement, education scholarship and/or program evaluation project or study.
Step 1: WCH Initiation Form
Academics has developed an electronic tool to help teams successfully initiate projects and studies at WCH. Please note that the PI or Project Lead will require a WCH email address to proceed further beyond this tool.
The tool or initiation form is comprised of a series of survey questions specific to the team’s project or study concept. It will help determine what resources a team needs to move forward and begin their study or project.
Once the form is completed an automatic checklist is generated outlining key contacts, links, resources, and other essential information to launch a project or study. Information from the initiation form will never be collected or fed into other systems, so teams can use it as many times as they’d like to explore different options or scenarios for their project or study.
Step 2: Reviews & Approvals
Part II: Service Providers’ Impact
This mandatory section allows you to electronically submit your Impact Analysis forms for Medical Imagining, Laboratory Services, Pharmacy, and/or Strategic Communications for review and approval. This new approach will aim to standardize and streamline our current processes.
Please have the latest draft of your protocol ready to attach.
Please contact the REDCap Office for an external REDCap login or project access: REDCap@wchospital.ca. Once you have access, click below:
For support please see our instructions for Part II: Service Providers’ Impact (PDF)
Part III: Scientific Review
This NEW mandatory electronic format now replaces the paper-based ‘Scientific Review’ form to help drive greater efficiency across processes. Completing the Central Form and including your list of internal and external reviewers, will trigger an email notification to be sent directly to the reviewers.
Reviewers can access the ‘Scientific Review’ form simply by clicking on a survey link! To access the Central Form and the Scientific Review section, click below to the external REDCap domain. For access to external REDCap, please email REDCap@wchospital.ca.
NOTE: We greatly appreciate your support and feedback as we continue to develop each step within Project Launch. Please submit all feedback to Evelina Rutkowski, Project Manager at Evelina.Rutkowski@wchospital.ca
