The Chaplaincy Research Summer Institute (CRSI) is a week-long intensive course that helps spiritual care practitioners develop research literacy to understand and apply research critically and introduces them to skills to engage in research and quality improvement projects. The content of the CRSI provides participants with an introduction to the research process, various methods relevant to chaplaincy research (e.g., case studies, qualitative and quantitative methods), important examples of existing chaplaincy-related research, and conducting targeted literature searches in PubMed.