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Assessment of learning through interprofessional simulations in a Francophone minority context

Research team

  • Co-PI
    I. Giroux (U Ottawa), S. Savard (U Ottawa)
  • Co-I
    J. Savard (U Ottawa), M. Dorion (U Sherbrooke), M. Muray (U Ottawa), J. O’Neil (U Ottawa), K Sauvé-Schenk (U Ottawa), J. Tyerman (U Ottawa), L. Shoppoff (U Ottawa), C. Landry (U Ottawa), N. Skavkov (U Ottawa), A. Gauthier (Laurentian U), P. Timony ( Laurentian U), R. Bélanger (Laurentian U), N. Harley (U Alberta), C. Tellier (U Alberta), E. Cameron (Northern Ontario School of Medicine), L.D. Ndiaye (U Saint-Boniface), J. Beauchamp (Centre de formation médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick)
  • Partners

    A. Désilets (Société Santé en français), B. Pinet (CNFS, U Ottawa component), E. Ethier (Institut du Savoir Montfort), B. Karamifar (Teaching and Learning Support Services, U Ottawa, Institute of Official Languages and Bilingualism, U Ottawa, and Montfort Hospital), A. Veilleux (Montfort Academic Family Health Team), A. Bernadin (Vanier Community Service Centre of Ottawa), M. Dranca (Centre for Community Settlement, Support and Guidance), M. Dumoulin (La Cité College), C. McMillan Boyles (Laurentian U, School of Nursing), R. Bélanger (Laurentian U, School of Speech-Language Pathology), D. Barbeau-Rodrigue (Northern Ontario School of Medicine University), F. LeBlanc (U Moncton), B. Temple (U Alberta, Nursing), L. Ndiaye (U Saint-Boniface, School of Social Work)

Funding agency

  • SSHRC ($200,000)
    Period: 2025-2028

Summary

Francophone minority communities (FMCs) do not always have access to social and health services in French, which can lead to communication breakdowns, misdiagnosis, and inadequate care. Since FMCs members do not always feel comfortable requesting French-language services (FLS) (Drolet et al., 2017), active offer (AO)—a proactive approach at first contact—becomes essential. Professionals trained in French- or English-speaking institutions must be better prepared to meet the needs of FMCs. The interprofessional (IP) approach, at the heart of the 2024 competency framework of the Canadian lnterprofessional Health Collaborative, supports this approach. Our team has developed a toolkit of interprofessional simulations (IP SIMs) on AO, intended for current and future professionals. These training courses offer experiential, progressive, and individualized learning.

Overall project objective:
To support, through a national partnership, institutions wishing to integrate AO training in their educational or practice settings.

The specific objectives are to: 

  • Create a sustainable community of practice among various university and college education programs that educate social and health service professionals in the active offer competency, as well as practice settings that are called upon to offer services in French,
  • Evaluate and enhance active offer education for services in French intended for future and current social and health service professionals by promoting the use of IP SIMs, and
  • Determine whether and how this training contributes to :
    i) the acquisition of the active offer competency by professionals,
    ii) the improvement of program  and practice setting education, and 
    iii) the improvement of the active offer of services in French by providers serving indivuduals in these settings.

Let's bring science and communities together to improve equity, access, and quality of care in French in all minority situations across Canada.

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