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BRIC NS Primary Care Learning Series: April 2025

The BRIC NS Primary Care Learning Series is an opportunity for professors, established researchers and/or early career investigators across Nova Scotia to share their completed or in-progress primary care research.

Title: Enhancing Continuing Care Case Management Services for Older Adults with Complex Needs

Presenter: Dr. O’Neil is a CIHR Health Systems Impact post-doctoral fellow conducting embedded research within Nova Scotia Health Continuing Care. Her work, which forms part of Continuing Care’s ongoing case management renewal initiative, focuses on better understanding the needs of older adults with complex health and social care issues. This unique research partnership also includes the Nova Scotia Centre on Aging (NSCA) at Mount Saint Vincent University.

Kelly holds a doctoral degree in educational studies from St. Francis Xavier University (2024) with a focus on older women’s learning. She also holds a master’s degree in gerontology and family studies from MSVU (2019) where her master’s research on housing insecurity among older women living with a low income in Halifax Regional Municipality garnered the university’s Graduate Thesis Award. She obtained a Bachelor of Social Work degree from Dalhousie University (2011) with an emphasis on critical, anti-oppressive practice. Kelly has been a research associate with NSCA since 2017 and has worked on projects focused on older workers, family/friend caregiving and dementia education. Kelly has worked as a professional gardener for almost 30 years, and enjoys making art and being in nature.

When: April 23rd, 2025 12:00 – 1:00 pm AT

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BRIC NS Primary Care Learning Series: December 2024

The BRIC NS Primary Care Learning Series is an opportunity for professors, established researchers and/or early career investigators across Nova Scotia to share their completed or in-progress primary care research.

Title: Innovating Health Systems: A Showcase of Research from the Centre for Integrated Care

Presenter: Dr. Shelley Doucet is the Jarislowsky chair in Interprofessional Patient-Centred Care, professor in Nursing and Health Sciences, and director of the Centre for Research in Integrated Care at the University of New Brunswick. Shelley’s expertise lies in interprofessional patient-centred care, patient navigation, integrated care and qualitative research. She has a broad pan-Canadian research network through her role as the New Brunswick research lead for the Primary Care Research Network (PCRN).

When: Dec 3rd, 2024 12:00 – 1:00 pm AT

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BRIC NS Student Seminar Series: November 2024

The BRIC NS Student Seminar Series is an opportunity for students across Nova Scotia to share their completed or in-progress research. Presentations cover a wide variety of disciplines, but all address the common thread of primary and integrated healthcare.

Title: Change in physician-level workload using Electronic Medical Records in Canada (2011-2021)

Presenter: Dr. François Gallant is a Mitacs Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Dalhousie Family Medicine and Vitalité Health Network, where he works as a research coordinator. He is interested empirical methods and the creative use of observational data to contribute to the evidence base. Generally, François hopes to address research questions that will facilitate the empowerment of people to take charge of their health.

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BRIC NS Student Seminar Series: Sept 2024

The BRIC NS Student Seminar Series is an opportunity for students across Nova Scotia to share their completed or in-progress research. Presentations cover a wide variety of disciplines, but all address the common thread of primary and integrated healthcare.

Title: Family Physicians with a Geriatric Focus: Describing their Medical Practice Patterns and Impacts

Presenter: Rebecca recently completed her PhD and began a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dalhousie University in the Department of Family Medicine. She is a health services researcher with interests in primary care, aging, health human resources, and medical education. She trained at McMaster University (PhD, Health Research Methodology, 2024) and the University of Waterloo (BSc, Honours Health Studies, 2019). Her dissertation included a modified Delphi study and two population-based observational studies to investigate the impacts of added competency training and focused medical practice among family physicians on caring for older adults. During her postdoc, Rebecca will lead mixed-methods, multi-provincial studies to understand the impacts of population aging on primary care needs and capacity.

When: Sept 25, 2024 12:00 – 1:00 pm ADT

Where: This session will take place via Zoom

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BRIC NS Student Seminar Series: July 2024

The BRIC NS Student Seminar Series is an opportunity for students across Nova Scotia to share their completed or in-progress research. Presentations cover a wide variety of disciplines, but all address the common thread of primary and integrated healthcare.

This seminar features two student presentations:

Presentation #1

Title: Pharmacists’ prescribing of opioids in Nova Scotia under Health Canada’s Controlled Drugs and Substances Act temporary exemption during COVID-19 pandemic

Presenter: Ronald Watema-Lord, PharmD Candidate

Presentation #2

Title: Identifying Factors that Influence How Patients or Caregivers Decide to Present to an Emergency Department: A Scoping Review Protocol

Presenter: Emily Devereaux, PhD Student

When: July 24th, 2024 12:00 – 1:00 pm ADT

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BRIC NS Student Seminar Series: November 2023

The BRIC NS Student Seminar Series is an opportunity for students across Nova Scotia to share their completed or in-progress research. Presentations cover a wide variety of disciplines, but all address the common thread of primary and integrated healthcare. Everyone is welcome!

Topics & Presenters: 

  • Amanda Higgins, 1st year MA Health Promotion student, will be presenting on “Creating an Evaluation for a Self-Management Transition of Care Program at IWK Health”
  • Monica McGraw, 3rd year PhD student, will be presenting on “The experience of inter-professional collaboration in telehealth in primary care: the perspective of patients living with a chronic disease and their loved ones”

Date: November 28th, 2023, 12:00 –1:00 pm AST

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BRIC NS Student Seminar Series

The BRIC NS Student Seminar Series is an opportunity for students across Nova Scotia to share their completed or in-progress research. Presentations cover a wide variety of disciplines, but all address the common thread of primary and integrated healthcare. Everyone is welcome!

Date: September 28, 2023, 12:00 –1:00 pm AST

Title: Assessing the relationship between gestational weight gain and weight bias internalization in pregnancy

Presenter:

Jackie Stewart is a 4th year MD student at Dalhousie University with anticipated graduation in 2024. Conducting research under the supervision of Dr. Helena Piccinini-Vallis.

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BRIC NS Student Seminar Series

The BRIC NS Student Seminar Series is an opportunity for students across Nova Scotia to share their completed or in-progress research. Presentations cover a wide variety of disciplines, but all address the common thread of primary and integrated healthcare. Everyone is welcome!

Date: March 19th, 2023, 12:00 –1:00 pm AST

The seminar will cover two topics: 

  • Rebecca Correia will present “The Health System Impacts of Care of the Elderly Family Physician Care in Canada: What We Know About Competencies, Practice Patterns, and Care Quality” 
     
  • Alicia-Grant Singh will present “Prescribing opioid agonist treatment in primary care: Narrative sod primary care providers in Nova Scotia” 

Presenters:

Rebecca Correia is a 3rd year PhD candidate in Health Research Methodology at McMaster University with anticipated graduation in 2024. Conducting research under the supervision of Dr. Andrew Costa​.

Alicia-Grant Singh is in her last year of MA Health Promotion program at Dalhousie, expected to graduate in May 2023. Conducting research under the supervision of Dr. Lois Jackson. She works in a casual position as a RN in the Emergency Department. 

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BRIC NS Student Seminar Series

The BRIC NS Student Seminar Series is an opportunity for students across Nova Scotia to share their completed or in-progress research. Presentations cover a wide variety of disciplines, but all address the common thread of primary and integrated healthcare. Everyone is welcome!

Date: January 27th, 2023, 12:00 –1:00 pm AST

Title: Goal-oriented care: from a conceptual framework towards a practice-based understanding

Presenter:

Dagje Boeykens is a 4th year PhD student in Health Sciences, with a focus in goal-oriented care in primary healthcare settings. She works under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Pauline Boeckxstaens, Prof Dr. Dominique Van de Velde, and Prof Dr. Patricia De Vriendt​.

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BRIC NS Student Research Award Application Cycle 2023

Applications for the BRIC NS Student Research Award will be accepted from March 17 to May 17, 2023.

Note: Any applications received after the deadline will not be considered and you must resubmit for consideration when the next application cycle opens in Y2024.

Click here to view/download our Fillable Application Form

Click here to view/download Student Research Award Application Guidelines

Objectives

The goal of the BRIC NS Student Research Award aims to encourage future health researchers to consider primary care research as part of their career path.

Funding Details

The BRIC NS Student Research Award is offered annually to a minimum of two eligible recipients. In addition to receiving this prestigious recognition, BRIC NS will contribute an award of $1,500 (non-renewable) to assist the recipient in furthering their research. Award recipients will be required to present their primary care research project at a BRIC NS event.

Eligibility

To be considered, student research award applicants must:

  1. Be a BRIC NS member (membership is free and can be obtained on our Membership page).
  2. Be a Master’s student, Doctoral student, or Medical Resident within a Nova Scotian institution.
  3. Be engaged in primary care research in BRIC NS’s priority area (Listed on our Priorities page)

Application Requirements

A completed application package must be submitted via e-mail to bricns@dal.ca with the subject heading “BRIC NS Student Research Award Application”. SRA Applications must include:

  1. Completed application form
  2. Research project description (see application guidelines for format requirements)
  3. CV (Note that a Canadian Common CCV is not required, but would be acceptable)
  4. Copy of all academic transcripts (Unofficial transcripts will be accepted. Official transcripts may be requested upon receiving the award).
  5. A letter of reference from the applicant’s supervisor or other academic reference to be submitted separately by the referee. (see application guidelines for format requirements)

Assessment Criteria

Applications are assessed by the BRIC NS Student Research Award Review Committee using the following criteria and marking rubric:

  1. Addresses Primary Care Research Priorities (Yes or No)
  2. Relevance and potential impact of the primary care research project to BRIC NS’s goals and research priorities (20%)
  3. Quality and feasibility of the proposed primary care research project (20%)
  4. The relationship of the work to primary care (15%)
  5. Quality and feasibility of the patient engagement plan (15%)
  6. Quality and feasibility of the knowledge translation plan (15%)
  7. Quality, relevance and potential impact of academic abilities, training and past experiences (15%)

For all inquiries pertaining to this award:

bricns@dal.ca