Grant: Operating Grant: Health System Impact Fellowship - National Cohort Retreat

OUR MISSION: To advance a highly functional and sustainable community of practice (COP)[1, 2] for the HSIF. This COP will provide a stimulating forum for HSIF stakeholders to connect, learn, and collaborate to be able to contribute to health system transformations to their full potential[1, 2] . OUR GOALS are to: 1. Provide tools and learning opportunities in the Curriculum Training Modernization’s core competency areas that will equip our COP to advance learning health systems nationally; 2. Create deliberate, recurring networking opportunities for diverse HSIF stakeholders to meaningfully engage for success, and foster the COP; and, 3. Lay the foundation for the evolution and sustainability of the HSIF COP within the integrated Health Services and Policy Research (HSPR) ecosystem in Canada. NEXT STEPS: We are committed to continue offering fellows a broad range of extended learning and networking opportunities. We recognize the importance of in-person networking opportunities for fellows and the COP. In year 2, the NCTP will aim for an in-person NCR. The NCR will be hosted in BC in Spring, 2023. The NCR Planning Committee has been struck and is chaired by Stirling Bryan. In years 3 and 4, we propose following a similar approach with ongoing virtual extended learning and networking opportunities and in-person NCRs (if possible) according to similar NCTP quarterly themes, guiding principles and infrastructure. Our Alberta Executive team members will host the NCR in Year 3 at the Banff Learning Centre. Our Manitoba and Saskatchewan Executive team members will collaboratively host the NCR in Year 4. In years 2-4, we would also like to account for the growing COP. In 2021, 56 fellows started their fellowships, out of those 39 are postdoctoral fellows who are in the program for 2 years. In September 2022, a new cohort of doctoral and postdoctoral fellows will start their fellowships and join the HSIF COP. We expect about 140 members of the HSIF COP to attend the in-person NCRs and allocate the budget accordingly. The estimated budget for the coordination and delivery of this NCTP training curriculum and the annual NCR is an additional $50,000 for Year 2 and $150,000 per year for Years 3 and 4.