Ideas for Improving / Expanding Clinics

• Encourage attendence by junior biostatisticians for their continuing education, improving collaboration skills, and practice making recommendations to researchers
• Rotate in journal clubs
• Make an e-mail list of all clinic attendees for each day of the week
• Send an e-mail inviting people to attend and mentioning who will lead the session and what the topic will be
• Include a Booster Shot in every email with a short practical biostatistical lesson/update so that people are not annoyed by these e-mails
• Construct a web survey for assess how well clinics are serving the intended audience
• Have presentations in each clinics once per month
  • Notify all past attendees a day in advance
  • Point to survey URL
  • Also advertise some of these as "booster shots" for stat knowledge
• When taking questions, try to transform some of them into demonstrations, to hold the interest of attendees who didn't ask the question
• Try to solve the persons problem during the clinic so they leave with a solution and also a new skill, rather than simply listing all of their flaws
• As you talk with investigators, especially fellows and medical students, encourage them to bring their very interesting question to Biostatistics Clinic at noon on X day.
• Encourage investigators to bring manuscripts that they are about to submit for publication. Put the ms on the large screen and give them ideas for improving.
• Encourage investigators to bring grant applications before they submit and do the same.
• Invite Emphasis medical students, MPH students, and MSCI students to attend the clinic - an email once per month might be sufficient.
• We can get another article in the Reporter if we write a good draft that is interesting and newsworthy. We should also get some good photos - to show how much fun clinic is.
• Install flat panel screen outside our department office with notices and photos of Clinic.
• If 10 people come to clinic and 2 bring data sets, the goal should be to solve the problems of the 2, entertain all 10, and make sure everyone leaves with a new tool in their toolbox.
• To make it more interesting, put the data set up on the screen as soon the clinic begins. It is much more interesting than simply discussing it.
• Encourage SON, VKC, and IGP faculty and students to come
• Widely distribute a brochure
• Survey past clients