The STAR (Staff Activity Reporter) application is a web-based database system used to manage CV and activity data of a teaching hospital's or medical faculty's staff members, for the departments' administration of their budgets. The medical staff data includes curriculum vitae, research, administration, teaching and clinical activities.
Medical staff can view and revise their CVs on the STAR system to ensure their accuracy. The STAR system will also assist the Department in the implementation of the proposed funding model by tracking physician activities and ensuring the correct dispersal of funds as outlined in the model.
To access STAR click here.
TRAINING and INFORMATION SESSIONS
Those wishing to obtain one-on-one STAR orientation sessions (approx. 30-60 mins. long) can contact the STAR Administrator at hbenoit@hsc.mb.ca or by phone at 787-8020 to schedule a session.
McMaster University has developed a series of video tutorials which users are encouraged to view to give them a better sense of navigating the STAR system. The tutorials are available for viewing at: http://www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/csu/STAR-CVTutorials.htm
DEPARTMENT STAR ADMINISTRATORS
If STAR users have any questions regarding the STAR system, they should contact their home department's STAR administrator. If your department is not listed, please e-mail your comments or questions to hbenoit@hsc.mb.ca.
Department
Domain Administrator
Phone
Pediatrics
Hailey Benoit
(204) 787-8020
Interal Medicine
Tom Fraser
(204) 787-3959
OB/GYN
Cheryl Nicholls
(204) 787-4821
U of M CV STANDARD
The Department of Pediatrics & Child Health, along with the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, with the assistance of Acuity have developed a Curriculum Vitae standard that has become the acceptable CV layout for when department members apply for promotion.
The new CV is now available in STAR and is accessible on the Reports page. The report name in the Select Report drop-down menu is "CV Report per Manitoba University Guidelines". If you require more information on the new Manitoba CV, contact your department's STAR administrator.
To view the Manitoba CV Template to better understand where data will be presented in the CV, click here. Highlighted text is informational and will not appear on the actual CV. Text between handles (< and >) indicate data fields within STAR.
The following message is from Dr. Heather Dean, Associate Dean, Faculty of Medicine:
How do we measure scholarship and academic productivity in the Faculty of Medicine?
Friday, August 31, 2007 2:13 PM
This question will be a recurring theme in MEDLines for 07/08. You would think that we would have figured out the answer by now. But, alas, this question continues to be debated globally. With the start of a new academic year, it is a time for all of us to review our academic dossiers. The clinical teaching and professional service domains are the most challenging for clinical faculty to document. Clinical teaching does not fit easily into the traditional CV format and with the mandatory transition from conventional implicit clinical teaching to more explicit teaching in PGME, we need to figure out how to document these clinical teaching activities in the web-based CV formats available.
In addition, the exponential growth of the science of qualitative research, systematic reviews, quality improvement, and knowledge translation, to name only a few, has not been matched by proactive policies in medical publishing. Other creative professional activities such as the development of clinical practice guidelines, Cochrane Reviews, position papers for expert national advisory committees or specialty societies are also important platforms for academic activities that are difficult to categorize. DOAD is no longer supported by our Faculty. It was the first iteration of a web-based system of academic and professional activities. We have two new systems in our Faculty.
STAR is used by three departments, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Obstetrics. The CV Information System (CVIS is not the same as CIS, the curriculum information system), is used by all other departments. Approximately 350 of our 883 full time faculty members have registered their full CVs on the CVIS system; all others are in CVIS by virtue of their Faculty appointments but contain only limited demographic and research grant information from central administration. I encourage you to review the generic CV template of CVIS at www.umanitoba.ca/cv as there are helpful hints of what activities to include under each heading. All applications for tenure and promotion must now use one of these 2 CV formats.
Accessing STAR