Skip to main content
FINANCIAL SUPPORT

We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Government of Ontario for all editions of the Rourke Baby Record since 2006.

The Government of Ontario funding for the 2024 edition of the RBR has been skillfully administered by the Division of e-Learning Innovation, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University through the Enhanced 18-Month Well-Baby Visit program.

The Government of Ontario support included past research on the use of, satisfaction with, and criterion validity of the Rourke Baby Record with assistance from the Centre for Studies in Family Medicine at The University of Western Ontario, and from the Primary Healthcare Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Financial contributions to support ongoing RBR development projects are welcome and can be directed to the Memorial University of Newfoundland Rourke Baby Record Research and Development Fund: attention to Director of Administration, Office of Finance Faculty of Medicine, Medical Education Centre, 300 Prince Philip Drive, St. John’s NL A1B 3V6. All contributions will be acknowledged. Contributions were received from OKAKI Health Intelligence Inc, Telus, and AccelEMR between 2013 and 2017.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Core Team for the Rourke Baby Record has provided countless hours of expertise, commitment, creativity, and wisdom throughout the monumental task of producing the 2024 edition of the RBR. Heartfelt thanks to Drs. Imaan Bayoumi (Associate Professor and Director of Research, Family Medicine at Queens University), Bruce Kwok (Academic Family Physician at St. Michael’s Hospital Family Health Team and University of Toronto), Denis Leduc (Associate Professor of Pediatrics at McGill University), Leslie Rourke (Professor emerita of Family Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland), Patricia Li (Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Clinician Scientist at McGill University), and Anne Rowan-Legg (Associate Professor of Pediatrics at University of Ottawa); and also to Dr. James Rourke (Professor emeritus of Family Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland) who has provided strategic planning and project support.

The Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS), the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), and Dietitians of Canada have made valuable in-kind contributions through their members and organizational structures. The Rourke Baby Record is affiliated with the CFPC and CPS, and is endorsed by the CFPC, CPS and Dietitians of Canada.

Literature Review, Appraisal, and Recommendations:

A huge thank you to RBR Core Team members Drs. Imaan Bayoumi and Patricia Li for their expertise in taking the lead with this huge task for the 2024 RBR.

The McMaster Evidence Review and Synthesis Team (MERST) provided methodologic consultation, conducted the literature search strategy, selection of relevant studies, and a methodology review of each relevant study. Our sincere thanks to Donna Fitzpatrick-Lewis (MSW), Ruth Lewis (BA) and Diana Sherifali (RN, PhD, CDE) from MERST.

The RBR Clinical User Group: This group has provided feedback on the content of the 2024 RBR and ideas for future development. Thank you to Susan Avery (Family Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland), Jessica Bawden (Nurse Practitioner, Women’s College Hospital), Ilana Horvath (Mt Sinai FHT Vaughan ON, University of Toronto), Laura Kroeker (Family Medicine, Queens University), Rukaiyah Lakkadghatwala (MD Class of 2020, Queens University), Darlene Lower (Mt Sinai FHT Vaughan ON, University of Toronto), Amanda Pendergast (Family Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland), Orly Shachar (Women’s College Hospital, Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto), Jordana Sheps (Women’s College Hospital, Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto), Emily Sullivan (Family Medicine, University of Saskatchewan), Karen Swirsky (St. Michael’s Hospital, Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto), Jolanda Turley (Family Medicine, University of Ottawa).

Parent Resources: Thanks to RBR Core Team member Dr. Anne Rowan-Legg for 2024 RBR content revisions to the RBR Parent Information Sheets. These sheets, as well as the Parent Resources section of the RBR website, were initially developed in collaboration with the RBR team by Laura Butler, Memorial University Medical Class 2014, with support from MUN Summer Undergraduate Research Awards.

French translation of the 2024 RBR has been provided by Dominique Paré, Le bout de la langue, dopare@sympatico.ca.

Graphic Design of the 2024 RBR has been provided by Mary Lou Landry, mloulandry@gmail.com.

Website Design: The Office of Professional and Educational Development at the Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland has been responsible for the development and management of this website. Special thanks to Dan DeLong and Todd Pardy from MUN and to Dr. Bruce Kwok of the RBR Core Executive Team for the 2024 redesign of the RBR website and for updating its content with the 2024 edition of the RBR. In the past, the Dr. Wallace J. Ingram Award for New Faculty in the Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, enabled Dr. Leslie Rourke to further the knowledge translation of the RBR including initial development of this website.