Our services
These services are open to all individuals and organizations involved in healthcare research, care and social services, as well as to the general public.
- Support the development of a work structure in partnership with patients
- Support a work team in the reflection, planning and implementation of a project
- Facilitate and animate exchanges on patient partnerships at discussion tables
- Support the evaluation of the partnership within the project
- Support the identification and/or recruitment of patient partners
- Offer partnership training
- Offer mentoring
- Patient
- Offer individual or group mentoring/training to patients/citizens wishing to become involved as partners.
- Project team
- Offer individual or group mentoring/training to teams wishing to become involved as partners.
- Offer individual or group mentoring/training to patients/citizens wishing to become involved as partners.
- Patient
- Offer mentoring
- Support networking with relevant partnership support infrastructures (e.g. partner office, partnership expertise group, etc.).
- Consult a panel of patient partners
- Understand the implications of the patient partner role
- Discuss the benefits of including a patient partner in a project
- Present your project to Indigenous Patient Partners for consultation (assessment of cultural relevance and safety is a prerequisite)
- Consult an Indigenous health expert on best practices for establishing links with an indigenous community
In a learning health system, all forces come together to eliminate working in isolation. There is a partnership between:
- Research
- Healthcare
- Social services
- Management
- The population
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Tranings and learning activities on partnership
An introduction to partnership in health and social services, patient partner recruitment, real-life experience sharing, public webinars and other content are all available in our catalog. Most trainings are in French.
Marie-Ève Poitras, Inf. Ph. D.
For me, the patient partnership is the very essence of health research. It fulfills my desire as a clinician and researcher to help improve the quality of care for and with patients! It is essential in every way and at all stages of the research process.
Toolbox
See allPosition Statement on partnership in Health and Social Services
Directory of specialized resources in healthcare partnerships in Quebec
The power of PROMs: reporting your health results means taking part in your own treatment
Patient Partnership Guidelines in research and clinical practice
News
See allLHS Incubator
TUTOR-PHC welcomes its first patient partner trainee: Marie-Dominique Poirier
Nearly $6 million to continually improve services for young people in Québec
Clinical Trials Quebec: your resource for discovering clinical research
Publications
See allThe Patient Perspective at the Heart of Perioperative Medicine Research
What if healthcare became a community effort, like in the Lanaudière region?
Best Practice Guidelines for Engaging People with Lived Experience in Mental Health/Substance Use Health Research
Teaming
Service request
When you apply for support from the Unité de soutien SSA Québec, you are taking part in the emergence of a learning health system (LHS). We offer three types of support: training, consultation and tools.
Team
Yan Défossés
Citizen Partner of the Change Management axis (ULaval branch)
Catherine Lemyze
Patient Partner of the partnership branch of the Université de Montréal SSA-RUISSS team
Denis Boutin
Patient Partner Comanagement of the Data Management axis
Marie-Dominique Poirier
Patient Partner Comanagement of the Capacity Building Axis and the program for scholarship holders
Tracie A Barnett
Scientific Comanagement of the Data Management axis and Partnership branch of the McGill SSA-RUISSS team
Sonia Lussier
Patient partner Comanagement of the Data Management axis and Partnership branch of the McGill SSA-RUISSS team
Simon Courtemanche
Patient Partner Comanagement of the Partnership axis