Page 9 of 12: WebCV replacement and introduction of Discover Research and Elements

Dear Department of Medicine research community,

You may have heard that the Department of Medicine will be moving on from WebCV and participating in the broader University of Toronto transition to a platform called “Elements” which forms the back-end of the new Discover Research portal. The system is designed to automatically pull publications, grants and other items without the need for you to manually update. The public-facing side of this system requires your opt-in and faculty members can login to Elements and select what, if anything, they choose to share. Instructions to login can be found in the attached slides.

As the system was designed to support researchers across all Faculties of the University of Toronto, a working group has been struck to ensure that it meets the specific needs of our clinician teachers and educators, and clinicians in quality & innovation. We do however want to make sure that any distinct needs of our clinician investigators and clinician scientists are not missed (including reporting and CV outputs).

To that end we are looking for a few volunteers from amongst our Clinician Scientists and Investigators to join this group. If you are interested in participating, please let me know.

What is the ask re time?

-                      Virtual group meeting (30 minutes) to explain the project plan and introduce the TFOM team and the tools.

-                      Prior to the above meeting, send your CVs, as produced by Web CV, to the team leaders.

-                      Kate and Joanna from the Temerty Research office will then schedule individual meetings with working group members for individual data review meetings (~3 hours total between now and the winter break).

Thanks,