University of Ottawa

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Ottawa Life Sciences Achievement 2007 Health
Innovation Award
Interprofessional Rehabilitation University
Clinic in Primary Health Care

• University of Ottawa
• Faculty of Health Sciences
• School of Rehabilitation Sciences

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Vision of the clinic

• This clinic offers services
• in French
• in primary health care including rehabilitation
• using an interprofessional approach
• Participates
• in the professional and interprofessional
  education and training in health care of
  francophone students living in a minority setting
• And will become
• a center for research on interprofessional health
  care and community-based rehabilitation services
  for the francophone community at the regional,
  provincial and national level

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Vision of the clinic
Technology
Interprofessionalism
SERVICES
Life habits / social participation
2006
2010
2008
Ottawa region
North and East Ontario
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Interprofessionnal services (2006-08)

• Health care professions involved
• Audiology
• Occupational therapy
• Medicine
• Speech language pathology
• Physiotherapy
• Human kinetics
• Nursing
• Social Work

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First clients of the clinic for the period
2006-2008

• School-aged children (5) with mild impairments
  limiting their participation in their home and
  school environment
• Adults 50 with physical deficits limiting their
  participation in their life habits
• Caregivers working with these two populations

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Types of programs

• Functional screening in the community (hearing,
  language, mobility, functional autonomy) for
  adults 50 and school-aged children(5).
• Maintenance of the individuals quality life
  during transitional periods
• Hospital to community care access centre (CCAC),
• Hospital to long term care facilities
• Rehabilitation center to returning home
• through various rehabilitation interventions
  (wheel chair adjustments, prescription of
  assistive devices facilitating communication and
  independence, fall prevention, physical
  reconditioning after an hospitalization,
  reintegration of significant activities).
• French language training sessions for caregivers(
  family members or personal attendants) on
  strategies to better communicate with the care
  recipient, to prevent injuries while completing
  transfers and personal care, to prevent burnout
  or to administer medication.
• Support for parents to help them carry out home
  programs provided by the school health care
  professional.

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Participation of the clients

• You may be eligible to receive services from the
  clinic if your understanding of the French
  language is adequate enabling you to receive the
  services in French. For more information visit
  http//www.sante.uottawa.ca/pdf/clinique_brochur
  e.pdf
• To see our referal form visit the  
  http//www.sante.uottawa.ca/pdf/Clinique_univ_Form
  .pdf

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Participation of the students

• Services offered by the clinic will be provided
  by students under the supervision of a licensed
  preceptor. Preceptors will occasionally provided
  services directly to the client if the student is
  unable to do so thereby providing a valuable
  learning opportunity for students in the early
  stages of training.
• All services will be provided using an
  interprofessional collaborative approach that
  enhances the ability
• of students to provide patient-centered care.
• Clinical placements offered by the clinic are
  attributed to the students by the coordinators of
  the clinical education of their respective
  programs of study.

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Participation of the professors

• Certain course work within a community health
  course could be completed in collaboration with
  the clinic.
• Research projects on the interprofessional
  collaboration centered on the client will emanate
  from the activities of the clinic.
• Moreover, the clinic will participate, whenever
  appropriate , in the research initiatives
  emanating from the professors, in the field of
  the rehabilitation and the interprofessional
  education.
• The participation of each professor is to be
  defined, according to his/her research and
  teachings interest. Contact the coordinator of
  the clinic for more information.