25 Days on the COVID-19 Hotline: Reflections on the development of core competencies from a Health System Impact Fellow

Authors

  • Hilary A.T. Caldwell Healthy Environments Division, Healthy & Safe Communities, City of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON Child Health & Exercise Medicine Program, Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2951-4542

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15273/hpj.v1i1.10590

Abstract

When COVID-19 began to spread across Canada in 2020, local public health units and authorities began to implement emergency response teams. The purpose of this commentary is to describe my embedded learning experience at a public health unit during the first wave of COVID-19 in Canada. Using the enriched core competencies for health services and policy research doctoral graduates developed by the Canadian Health Services and Policy Research Alliance‘s Report from the Working Group on Training, this article describes the development of core competencies of an embedded fellowship before and during the COVID-19 response. I describe the learning and shift in core competency development that resulted as I was deployed to the COVID-19 Hotline in Spring 2020.                

Author Biography

Hilary A.T. Caldwell, Healthy Environments Division, Healthy & Safe Communities, City of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON Child Health & Exercise Medicine Program, Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

Hilary Caldwell, PhD prepared this commentary while a CIHR Health System Impact Fellow at City of Hamilton Public Health Services and a PhD Candidate at McMaster University. 

References

Bornstein, S., Heritage, M., Chudak, A., Tamblyn, R., McMahon, M., & Brown, A. D. (2018). Development of enriched core competencies for health services and policy research. Health Services Research, 53(S2), 4004–4023. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.12847

Canadian Health Services and Policy Research Alliance. (2015). Report from the Working Group on Training. https://ihpme.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/CHSPR-Alliance_Final_Dec7.pdf

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Published

2021-05-05

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2021)

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Commentary

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