rebecca correia, phd(c), Bsc trainee

Rebecca Correia completed her higher education at the University of Waterloo (BSc, Honours Health Studies, 2019) and McMaster University (PhD, Health Research Methodology, Present). Her areas of research interest are health services, medical education, primary care (family medicine), and aging. Rebecca began working under the supervision of Dr. Andrew Costa at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, Waterloo Regional Campus, during her final co-op term in January 2018, and has continued working and training with the BDG research team. Rebecca is planning to complete her PhD in July 2024 and then pursue postdoctoral training.

Rebecca has experience leading and conducting observational studies using health administrative data, consensus studies, and qualitative studies. Her dissertation focuses on the quality of primary care delivered to older adults by family physicians with different scopes of practice, focused areas, and training/certification. This work will establish the first validated cohort of family physicians with Care of the Elderly (COE) certificates from the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) linked with population-based, health administrative data holdings at ICES to examine practice characteristics, patterns, and outcomes. She recently led a modified Delphi study to establish a measurable set of practice-based quality measures to examine primary care provision of older adults.