29 Inspiring Lessons from Physician Appointees of the Order of Canada
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Abstract
The Order of Canada (OOC) is one of Canada’s highest civilian honours. Individuals are appointed to the OOC for their profound impact on Canadian society. There have been 18 physicians who have been affiliated with one Canadian Pediatric Academic Health Sciences Center (PAHSC) whose careers and accomplishments can be evaluated to inspire others who are involved in the care of children in Canada and internationally. The objective of this study was to reflect on the inspirational stories about the careers of individuals who have contributed greatly to the field of pediatrics in Canada and internationally. The secondary objective was to develop common themes from these stories to influence the career development of trainees and faculty in early stages of their careers. This is a qualitative prospective study of a convenience sample of the first 6 of the 14 living OOC appointees who are all current or prior faculty members in the Department of Pediatrics at a single PAHSC. Subjects were interviewed using a semi-structured interview that explored their careers and transcripts were coded using NVivo by two team members to identify common themes. All 6 physician OOC appointees reported enjoying working with a multidisciplinary team and shared the belief that teamwork led to better patient care. They described being truly passionate about their professional work, whether it was inventing a product, educating others, or building a pediatric department, and expressed gratitude for the opportunity to be in their professional roles despite the challenges they faced during their careers. Furthermore, they all described being passionate about mentorship and teaching students and trainees. Finally, they all emphasized the importance of humility despite their significant professional achievements. This project shares inspirational stories to students, trainees, and practicing pediatricians in Canada as it outlines the shared values of remarkable physicians who were all appointed to the Order of Canada through an exploration of their careers and accomplishments.
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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 | 0.008 | 0.029 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.036 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
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".