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How to undertake new research at ISM and Hôpital Montfort?
This poster presents the main steps to undertake a new research project at the ISM or at the Hôpital Montfort. A guide will be developed to complement the poster and the different steps.
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Availability and distribution of Francophone pharmacists in Ontario (In French only)
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Patient-physician linguistic concordance and quality and safety outcomes in frail individuals receiving home care and admitted to the hospital (In French only)
Databases to support research on Francophones
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Database of researchers whose research program affects Francophones
This database brings together researchers from all backgrounds whose research expertise affects Francophones. (In French only)
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Organizations that serve Francophones
This database brings together various organizations whose services are geared towards Francophones. (In French only)
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Publications
This database contains publications related to the health of Francophones in Canada and can be sorted by subject and province. (In French only)
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Who are we?
The Ontario SPOR SUPPORT Unit (OSSU) is a network of research centers that engages researchers, patients and other partners in patient-oriented research to improve the health of Ontarians and the health care system.
The Ontario Francophone Communities Research Initiative (OFCI), also known as IF-COFFRE (for Initiative Francophone-Communautés Ontariennes Francophones Facilitant la Recherche Equitable) is one of three OSSU initiatives providing cross-cutting expertise on the following priority areas from an equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) perspective: First Nations and Other Indigenous (Métis and Inuit), Francophone, and Sex and Gender.
What do we do ?
To achieve its objectives, IF-COFFRE offers the following services:
- We provide one-on-one support as an advisory service for OSSU members, other SPOR entities and those receiving CIHR funding on how to incorporate language variables into your project.
- We act as a broker by connecting patient partners with research teams seeking to include francophone perspectives.
- We can ensure that your results that include Ontario Francophones are available to a wider audience; this may include validation of French language training modules, data collection tools or frameworks and also working with authors to develop evidence summaries using existing research documents.
Our members
IF-COFFRE is housed at Institut du Savoir Montfort (ISM) and is composed of an ISM management team and members at large forming an advisory committee.
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Tools and Resources:
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Sample Grant Application Francophones Living in a Minority Setting
This model was created to help researchers include the Francophone minority community in their research grant applications.
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sex and gender guide
This tool is intended to help researchers maximize their chances of obtaining funding by including sex and gender when writing a grant proposal (In french only)
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OSSU Equity Framework
This framework explains the principles and practices for promoting equity in patient-oriented research, as well as the equity requirements for researchers working with the Ontario SPOR Support Unit (OSSU)
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Patients as partners in research investigations
A series of survey tools developed to help researchers better understand the actual experience of researchers and patients/caregivers when partnering on a project where patients and/or caregivers are members of the research team.
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Find a physician
This interactive map shows the names, practice locations and language skills of family physicians serving the community of Ottawa and Renfrew County, Ontario.
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Research Briefing Notes
To make research findings more accessible and influential, IF-COFFRE has prepared a series of plain language research summaries to share with policymakers and the general public.
Does end-of-life care differ for Anglophone and Francophone ?
Are long-term care residents with dementia and language barriers more likely to be hospitalized ?
The Availability and Distribution of FrenchSpeaking Pharmacists in Ontario