Recruitment and Retention of Rural and Remote Physicians

Recruitment and Retention of Rural and Remote Physicians – the Role of Alternate Payment Models

Project Status:Complete

Knowledge User(s)

Alberta Health Services

Project Trainee(s)

Yewande Ogundeji

Funding Source(s)

  • Alberta Health Services
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) through the Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research (SPOR) Evidence Alliance

Project Objectives

To (1) identify what approaches exist for enabling and supporting physicians to be stewards of health care resources; (2) determine the impact of each approach; and (3) identify which is most likely to support physicians to use high value appropriate care within the Alberta context.

Research Approach

Consensus Building Exercise, Focused Systematic Review, Overview of Reviews, Scoping Review

Project Lead(s)

Fiona Clement

Position: University of Calgary
Email: fclement@ucalgary.ca

Fiona Clement has extensive training in Health Services Research, Health Economics and Health Policy. She is the Director of the Health Technology Assessment Unit within the O’Brien Institute of Public Health, University of Calgary; a policy responsive research unit that completes evidence synthesis, economic evaluations, health technology assessments and reassessments in response to decision-makers’ needs. Her research interests include drug and non-drug technology reimbursement and cost containment policy, evidence in decision-making, and evidence in health policy development.

Dr. Clement was selected as the Canadian Harkness fellow in 2014; a unique opportunity to study US healthcare policy. She has also received the Maurice McGregor Award for outstanding leadership and excellence in HTA in Canada. She is the first from Alberta to be awarded either of these awards. As a result, in 2015, she was named one of Calgary’s Top 40 under 40 for her work in health policy.

Fiona Clement

University of Calgary

Fiona Clement has extensive training in Health Services Research, Health...