International Journal of Health Policy and Management

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

It’s All About the IKT Approach: Three Perspectives on an Embedded Research Fellowship; Comment on “CIHR Health System Impact Fellows: Reflections on ‘Driving Change’ Within the Health System”

Document Type : Commentary

Authors
Christine E. Cassidy 1, 2
Stacy Burgess 1
Ian D. Graham 2, 3
1 IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada
2 School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
3 Centre for PracticeChanging Research, The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
10.15171/ijhpm.2019.31
Abstract
As a group of Health System Impact (HSI) postdoctoral fellows, Sim and colleagues offer their reflections on ‘driving change’ within the health system and present a framework for understanding the HSI fellow as an embedded researcher. Our commentary offers a different perspective of the fellow’s role by highlighting the integrated knowledge translation (IKT) approach we consider to be foundational to the fellowship experience. Further, we provide several recommendations to enhance Sim and colleagues’ framework to ensure we capture the full value of the fellowship program to the HSI fellow, health system organization, and academic institution.
Keywords
Integrated Knowledge Translation
Co-production
Embedded Researcher
Canada
Postdoctoral Training
Subjects
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International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Volume 8, Issue 7
July 2019
Pages 455-458

  • Received Date 15 April 2019
  • Revised Date 09 May 2019
  • Accepted Date 11 May 2019
  • First Published Date 01 July 2019
  • Published Date 01 July 2019