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Directory of specialized resources in healthcare partnerships in Quebec

Are you interested in breaking down silos in health and social services? Find specialized resources in healthcare partnerships available in Quebec.

Jul 18, 2025

The power of PROMs: reporting your health results means taking part in your own treatment

What patients share with the care team can make all the difference. PROMs - Patient Reported Outcome Measures - are extremely useful, but can raise questions and concerns among patients. Here's a microsite that explains what PROMs are and why they are useful. Explanations, testimonials, podcasts and myths are covered, in both French and English.

May 1, 2025

Patient Partnership Guidelines in research and clinical practice

Discover the fundamentals of patient partnership, address the issue of roles and responsibilities in this partnership context, develop knowledge in recruiting, welcoming, training and supporting patient partners, and see the impact of patient partnership.

Apr 14, 2025

An interactive guide to help you succeed in Organizational Participatory Research

How to make a success of an organizational participatory research project? Here is an interactive guide outlining the challenges and solutions, with concrete examples.

Mar 7, 2025

Stories from the field: Inclusive Care

How can we combat inequity and offer more inclusive care? Patient-physician and patient-nurse pairs discuss these issues in this webinar.

Aug 21, 2024

Cultural Safety in Indigenous Health Research Context: a report of recommendations drawn from an unprecedented round-table discussion

To define and identify the best ways of conducting culturally safe indigenous health research, placing the voices and knowledge of indigenous people and their allies at the heart of the process. This is the challenge that several partners have set themselves. To achieve this, they organized an unprecedented round table with people representing 10 of the 11 nations present on Quebec territory.

Jun 21, 2024

Training: Evaluating Patient Engagement in Research

Upon the completion of this training, you will know the main steps that are required to evaluate a partnership with the patients and the public in research. You will also understand why it is interesting to evaluate it.

May 8, 2024

Online training on patient engagement in continuous quality improvement

How can you effectively integrate patient partners into a continuous quality improvement process? Find out in this asynchronous training course.

May 2, 2024

Microsite on patient partnership in research: interactive tour, resources and testimonials

What can you expect as a patient or citizen when you become a research partner? This microsite explains!

Apr 26, 2024

The Community of Practice evaluation questionnaire (CoPeval)

CoPeval aims to evaluate and improve communities of practice in partnership with their members, for example on an annual basis (formative evaluation). The two constructs evaluated are the processes and the effects of the Communities of Practice.

Nov 17, 2023

Module 201 – Patient partnership in research: the first steps

This training aims to initiate organizational transformation through the implementation of patient partnership.

Nov 17, 2023

Module 101 – Basis of patient partnership

Become familiar with the basics of patient partnership.

Nov 17, 2023