About the course

The VAST Summer Program encompasses a series of workshops and seminars targeted to undergraduate trainees in the field of VCI to help with overall VCI knowledge, research skills, and networking. While targeted to undergraduates, all are welcome to attend.  This series is coordinated by our VAST Trainee Curriculum Committee members. We'd encourage everyone to invite trainees in their labs. The series finishes with our annual Summer Student Symposium at the end of August !  All trainees who attend at least 4 of the sessions, as well as the symposium, will be awarded a certificate of completion. All trainees are welcome to sign up and attend the program.

Curriculum

9 Chapters · 60 Lessons

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      What is VAST?

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      Register for VAST

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      Complete the VAST EDI Survey

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      Other Useful VAST Links

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      Summer Program Instructions

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      2022 VAST Summer Symposium Schedule

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      Aug 18 - Multiple Presenters - Summer Symposium Recording

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      Proof of Attendance

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      Summer Program Schedule

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      June 1 - William Betzner - Lit Search Workshop

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      Slides - Lit Search Workshop

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      June 22 - Matthew Rozak - ARRIVE 2.0 Guidelines for Publishing in vivo Animal Research

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      Slides - Arrive 2.0 Guidelines for Publishing

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      July 25 - Matthew Rozak, Sajeevan Sujanthan, and Sotaro Hirai - Statistics Tutorial

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      July 25 - Sajeevan Sujanthan - Statistics Tutorial Part 1 - Linear Regression in R

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      July 25 - Sotaro Hirai - Statistics Tutorial Part 2 - T tests and ANOVAs

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      Aug 3 - Sajeevan Sujanthan - Presentation Skills

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      Slides - Presentation Skills

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      Aug 10 - Ateyeh Soroush & Dr. Sean Dukelow - Neurotechnology Innovations in Vascular Disease Seminar

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      Aug 18 - Multiple Presenters - Summer Symposium Recording

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      Proof of Attendance

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      Summer Program Schedule

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      June 11 - Dr. Phil Barber & Dr. Nárlon C Boa Sorte Silva - Intro to research on VCI and dementia: clinical presentations, etiology, prevention and treatment

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      June 25 - Panel Discussion - Involving people with lived experience in research: perspectives from the CCNA's EPLED team and collaborators

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      July 9 - Dr. Narlon C. Boa Sorte Silva - Open access software for brain segmentation and analysis

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      July 23 - Dylan Guan - Data Visualization

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      Aug 6 - Zacharie Potvin-Jutras & Dr. Bogna Drozdowska - Presentation Skills Workshop

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      Aug 20 - Multiple Presenters - 2024 VAST Student Summer Symposium

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      Proof of Attendance

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      Summer Program Schedule

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      A Very Brief VAST Introduction + Introduction to Thinkific

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      June 12 - Yundi Wang - Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis

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      June 25 - Dylan Guan - Statistics and Data Visualization

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      July 17 - Multiple Speakers - Importance of PWLE in Research

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      Resource - Engagement of People with Lived Experience of Dementia Website

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      Resource - Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA) website

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      Resource - Forward with Dementia website (mentioned by Myrna)

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      Resource - Purple Angels website (mentioned by Myrna)

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      Resource - AbSPORU Opportunities (from Ingrid)

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      July 24 - Laura Fitzgibbon-Collins - Delivering Impactful Abstracts and Presentations

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      Aug 13 - Multiple Speakers - AMA About Grad School

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      Aug 19 - Multiple Speakers - 2025 VAST Summer Symposium

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      Proof of Attendance

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      Summer Program Schedule

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      A Very Brief VAST Introduction + Introduction to Thinkific

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      Proof of Attendance

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      June 9 - Yousif Al-Khoury - Tips on Conducting a Literature Review and Formulating your Research Question

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      June 26 - Mehwish Anwer - Kickstarting Your Research Journey: Crafting a Strong Academic CV

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      July 8 - Soraya Lahlou - Intro to Data Vis with R (+ a bit on Stats)

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      July 24 - Brittany Skov & Shanaya von Scheel - First Nations and Métis understandings of dementia risk reduction: Findings from Northwestern Ontario and Alberta

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      Aug 11 - Multiple Speakers - 2026 VAST Summer Symposium

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      TCPS 2: CORE-2022 (Course on Research Ethics)

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      CIHR Sex and Gender Training Modules

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      CIHR Webinar on Research Involving First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples of Canada

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      Online Training on Data Handling Practices

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      Stanford - R Programming Fundamentals

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      OpenIntro Statistics

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      SciNet Available Courses

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      Indigenous Canada

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      AbSPORU Patient-oriented research training

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