Rollout and impact following recognition by the Hippocrates Award.
The visibility gained through the Hippocrates Award has helped raise awareness of the Frontline Trainer Training project and one of its flagship activities, the Caf-Échanges.
The positive experiences from the “frontline trainer” training project and the CAF-Exchanges have allowed our team to engage more closely with clinical settings in Quebec and other Canadian provinces. Various healthcare settings and research teams have reached out to us to replicate our trainer-training model or incorporate patient consultations into their activities. The exposure provided by the Hippocrates Award has also enabled the students on the team to network and gain recognition for their expertise in patient partnership.
Health Impacts and Value Creation in Clinical Settings
Our train-the-trainer approach facilitates the dissemination and implementation of healthcare innovations in clinical settings. This allows us to reach a larger number of healthcare professionals and thus maximize the number of patients who can benefit from high-quality interventions.
The Caf-Échanges, meanwhile, yield the following results:
- Impacts on patients: access to a forum where they can freely share their health concerns and discuss potential solutions that are meaningful to them;
- Impact on healthcare professionals: access to a source of information that sparks reflection on the alignment between patients’ actual needs and challenges and the institutional procedures and policies currently in place;
- Impact on the research community: better alignment between research initiatives and the actual needs of clinical settings and patients.
Has your project been transferred to other organizations in your community or to other regions, and, in your opinion, why should it be, if applicable?
- The training of trainers has been adopted by various research teams, including a team led by Prof. Poitras and Prof. Julia Lukweich (Memorial University, Newfoundland) as part of a Canadian training project dedicated to primary care nurses.
- In addition, we are currently organizing a Café-Exchange in collaboration with basic science researchers working on MODY2 diabetes, a rare form of diabetes. This serves as a demonstration of the transferability of a partnership initiative to basic health research.
2023 NEW RESEARCHERS AWARD
Ms. Marie-Ève Perron, RN, M.Sc.
Ms. Anaëlle Morin, RN, M.Sc.
Project: Training of Trainers and CAF-Échanges
© Photo credit: Université de Sherbrooke.
