115: Don & Elizabeth Hillman International Child Health Grant Awardees: Where are they Now?
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Abstract
In 2003, the Don & Elizabeth Hillman International Child Health Grant was created by the Canadian Pediatric Society (CPS) Global Child & Youth Health Section to promote international health opportunities for residents and fellows. Forty awards were administered ($750 – $1000) from 2003 to 2013, for use towards costs of paediatrics elective in low-middle income countries (LMIC). It is one of the few funding opportunities of its kind available to Canadian paediatric trainees. It is timely to evaluate the impact of providing supportive funds for such experiences and their effects on recipient career paths. This evaluation aimed to describe interest, enablers, and perceived barriers of career activities in global health amongst those who completed a funded international elective during residency, and to examine how these experiences may influence the time dedicated to global health activities including local patient populations. Past Hillman Grant recipients were contacted by email to complete an online survey, which was designed from review of relevant literature, to assess interest, perceived enablers and barriers in global health experiences and career paths. Data were collected and managed using REDCap electronic data capture tools hosted at University of British Columbia. Nineteen out of 40 grant awardees completed the online survey; five are still in residency or fellowship. While for 8/19, receiving the grant influenced their decision to go, the remainder would have done an international residency elective (IRE) regardless but qualitative review indicates that it assisted in lifting ‘burden of cost’ and was appreciated, but not sole influential factor in participating. Nearly half (47%) have pursued further training related to global health (GH), while another 36% are planning to do so in the future. The majority (79%) endorsed that participation in an IRE encouraged future global health involvement, while all respondents felt the experience influenced their attitudes towards health care. Ten (of 14 total) pediatrician respondents indicated that they currently spend time in GH activities (both locally and abroad); respondents are involved with caring for families receiving social assistance (14/19), newcomer health (11/19), First Nations/Inuit/Metis health (10/19), GH education within Canada (14/19), and health education outside Canada (10/19). Enablers to participation in GH activities include: family support (11/19), departmental support (10/19), international electives (9/19) and mentorship (8/19). Most significant barriers to participation in GH activities were: scheduling (16/19) with 68% of these indicating need to use vacation time, financial (15/19), and family obligations (10/19). Recipients of the Hillman grants generally are involved with the care of vulnerable children within and outside Canada, and for many, their international elective experience influenced those career directions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.114 | 0.019 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".