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Webinar Notes: The “Coin Model of Privilege and Critical Allyship”

Title: The “Coin Model of Privilege and Critical Allyship”: Orienting Ourselves for Accountable Action on Equity Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Nixon, University of Toronto Hosted by: Simon Fraser University, Faculty of Health Sciences Dr. Nixon asked us to jot down our … Continue reading

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Evaluator Competencies Series: Ethics

1.3 Integrates the Canadian Evaluation Society’s stated ethics in professional practice and ensures that ethical oversight is maintained throughout the evaluation. Like many evaluators, a lot of my knowledge of ethics comes from the research world. I recently completed the … Continue reading

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CHSPR Conference Poster References

Some colleagues and I are presenting a poster at the Centre for Health Services & Policy Research conference on March 7-8, 2019. Rather than cluttering up our poster with a reference list, we are putting our references online here and … Continue reading

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Pragmatic Science

Another posting that was languishing in my drafts folder. Not sure why I didn’t published it when I wrote it, but here it is now! Berwick (2009) wrote an interesting commentary called “Broadening the view of evidence-based medicine” in which he … Continue reading

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Intro to Philosophy – Week 6 – Are Scientific Theories True?

this module was not what I expected – I was expecting to learn about the philosophy of science (e.g., positivism, post-positivism, etc.), but instead the whole module was about the debate between scientific realism vs. scientific anti-realism – a debate … Continue reading

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Electronic Health Records (EHR)

Notes from module 4 of the Interprofessional Health Informatics course I’m working on (plus side side reading that I did to fill in some blanks/learn more about some things mentioned in the course) electronic health record (EHR) = “an electroic record of health-related … Continue reading

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Data-Information-Knowledge

Notes from module 3 of the Interprofessional Health Informatics course I’m working on (plus side side reading that I did to fill in some blanks/learn more about some things mentioned in the course) Data: observations (numbers, terms) Information: data with … Continue reading

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KT Canada Conference – Day 1

I’m in Halifax for the Knowledge Translation Canada conference. Figured my blog would be a good place to collect my notes. There was also a hashtag of #KTCanada15 where people were tweeting their thoughts (and often tweeting out links to … Continue reading

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Blog Reboot

So I’m taking a digital marketing class as part of my MBA program and one of the requirements of this course is to have a professional blog. This seemed like just the prompt I needed to resurrect drbethsnow.com, which I used … Continue reading

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Under Construction

This site is currently under construction. If you arrived here looking for the blog Not Be Trusted With Knives, it has moved to the aptly named URL: http://www.nottobetrustedwithknives.com/ Image Credit: Snowflake-017 posted by yellowcloud on Flickr using a Creative Commons … Continue reading

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