Document Type : Viewpoint
Authors
1 Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
2 Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, AB, Canada
3 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
4 Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan
5 Nova Scotia Health Innovation Hub, Halifax, NS, Canada
6 University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
7 Faculty of Science, Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, ON, Canada
8 KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
9 Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
10 Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
11 Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
12 Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
13 Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Keywords
Background
Classically, the concept of an embedded scholar is of a team member who maintains an academic affiliation in a health system organization, which is lately being viewed as a pragmatic shift towards creating evidence-informed impact.1,2 Towards this goal, the Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship is one of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research’s (CIHR’s) flagship programs, that cultivates academic and health system organization partnerships, while catalyzing development of learning health systems (LHS). ...(Read more...)
)