Kick-Starting Health Informatics Careers - A Canadian Approach

Governing Collaborative Healthcare Improvement: Lessons From an Atlantic Canadian Case

The Atlantic Healthcare Collaboration for Innovation and Improvement in Chronic Disease (AHC) Quality Improvement Collaborative (QIC) in Eastern Canada provided an approach to spur system-level reform across multiple health systems for patients and families living with chronic disease. Developed and led by senior executives with a unique governance approach and involving clinical front-line tea...

Primary health care models: medical students’ knowledge and perceptions.

OBJECTIVE To explore the knowledge and perceptions of fourth-year medical students regarding the new models of primary health care (PHC) and to ascertain whether that knowledge influenced their decisions to pursue careers in family medicine. DESIGN Qualitative study using semistructured interviews. SETTING The Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario in...

Canadian medical schools slow to integrate health informatics into curriculum.

Networks of trainees: examining the effects of attending an interdisciplinary research training camp on the careers of new obesity scholars

Students training in obesity research, prevention, and management face the challenge of developing expertise in their chosen academic field while at the same time recognizing that obesity is a complex issue that requires a multidisciplinary and multisectoral approach. In appreciation of this challenge, the Canadian Obesity Network (CON) has run an interdisciplinary summer training camp for grad...

Grounded Theory Evolution and Its Application in Health Informatics

The value of utilising qualitative research approaches to identify, describe and evaluate the impact of health information systems upon healthcare processes is becoming increasingly clear. The use of grounded theory has increased over the past decade within the health informatics discipline. However, for researchers new to the approach, the theory and conduct of grounded theory can be both conf...