Launch 2023 : Bonnie Swaine Recognition Award | Clinician/Healthcare Professionals – Partnership and Knowledge Mobilization

The Bonnie Swaine Recognition Award is a distinction created by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal (CRIR) in 2021, in honor of Bonnie Swaine, CRIR’s scientific co-director from 2010 to 2020. She has empowered numerous clinicians and healthcare professionals in the field of clinical research. She does this by supervising projects that emerge from relevant inquiries or by engaging in action-research embedded in innovative practices.

 

Throughout her tenure at CRIR, she provided tangible solutions and collaborated with clinicians and healthcare professionals, including staff and managers, to ensure that the research culture gained its true significance within our partner institutions.

This prize is awarded to a CRIR Clinician/Healthcare Professional members who has made a significant contribution to partnerships and knowledge mobilization in support of CRIR’s mission.

 

 

Objectives

• To recognize the contribution of Clinician/Healthcare Professionals in the development of partnerships and the realization of CRIR’s research mission.
• To promote the outreach of partnership research and the participation of Clinician /Healthcare Professionals in the mobilization of knowledge.

*Knowledge mobilization encompasses a continuum of sharing-dissemination-implementation (Nilsen, 2015). Knowledge mobilization involves capturing and exchanging the right information with the right people, in the right format and at the right time, in order to support the decision-making process of users, their families, caregivers and stakeholders.

 

Philippe Archambault, erg., Ph.D.      Claudine Auger, erg., Ph.D.
Scientific Co-Director, CRIR                  Scientific Co-Director, CRIR

 

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    Launch : 2023 Contest

 

 

 

The Bonnie Swaine 2023 Recognition Award is intended to recognize a maximum of six (6) Clinician/Healthcare Professionals members, i.e. one (1) finalist with honourable mention per CRIR establishment, including partners (CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île de Montréal, CIUSSS West-Central Montreal, CISSS de Laval, CISSS de la Montérégie-Centre, CISSS des Laurentides, CISSS de Lanaudière).

A Committee of Wise Persons at CRIR’s administrative office will, from these finalists, select one person to be the recipient of the Bonnie Swaine 2023 Recognition Award.

The official announcement of the Clinician/Healthcare Professionals recipient of the Bonnie Swaine 2023 Recognition Award will take place at CRIR’s Annual General Meeting, to be held in the fall of 2023.

Honorable mentions, the contributions of all finalists and the winner will be celebrated throughout the year, both by CRIR and by each establishment in a manner defined locally.

 

Procedure

Each CRIR establishment that chooses to participate will set up a local committee to evaluate candidates from among its Clinician/Healthcare Professionals members, according to five evaluation criteria (see below).

This local committee will be led by the site director (CRIR establishments) and clinical research coordinators (CRCs), who may be joined by other local managers. It will award its honorary mention office a single individual. It will then submit this finalist’s application to CRIR’s administrative office, as part of the Bonnie Swaine 2023 Recognition Award competition.

 

Eligibility criteria

1. To be eligible, a candidate must be a CRIR Clinician/Healthcare Professionals member in good standing at the time of application.
2. CRIR Clinician/Healthcare Professionals member are not authorized to nominate themselves. Members of the local committee will evaluate their nominations, offer an honourable mention and submit one finalist to the CRIR head office.
3. A CRIR establishment may submit the same nomination no more than twice in any four-year period.

 

Prize awarded to the winner | Bonnie Swaine 2023 Recognition Award

• A $100 gift card (card of your choice)
• Official certificate
• Special invitation to attend a recognition dinner with Bonnie Swaine, other finalists and CRIR representatives.

 

Committee of good-minded people (Selection committee – CRIR’s administrative office)

The Committee of good-minded people* will be mandated to receive and evaluate the nominations of finalists from each CRIR institution, to determine the recipient of the 2023 Bonnie Swaine Recognition Award. This committee will consist of three or four members:

• A member of CRIR’s scientific management team, who will chair the committee;
• Bonnie Swaine;
• Claudia Bojanowski, CRIR’s Partnership and Knowledge Mobilization Coordinator;
• One (1) retired CRIR member (clinicians or researchers) OR (if not available) another resource person whose choice will be approved by the COR.

*Note: a member of a local committee cannot be a member of the Committee of good-minded people.

 

Evaluation criteria

Each local committee will evaluate nominations from among their Clinician/Healthcare Professionals members according to five criteria that refer to the overall contributions made by the individual within the five last years preceding the competition.

This person, through his or her efforts in connection with CRIR-related projects and knowledge mobilization, has produced or demonstrated:

1. Impact on the practice environment: the candidate’s contributions has had a remarkable positive impact on the provision of care or services in their practice environment, or adds value to the services received by users. The number of practitioners or users concerned and the characteristics of the impact should be taken into account (duration, scope, measurable effects if relevant, etc.), or the innovative quality of his contribution even if the scope is less extensive, etc.
2. Impact on outreach: in particular, the candidate’s contributions has led to recognition beyond the walls of their home institution, thanks to their clinical or scientific activities, their presentations or their collaborations with partners in other institutions. The extent of the influence should be taken into account (within CRIR establishments, beyond CRIR, outside provincial or national borders).
3. Impact on the training of the next generation: the candidate’s contributions has had a remarkable impact on the training of students or trainees in their practice environment, the training of new employees, or the training of students in teaching institutions (e.g. when the person teaches at a university). The number of students/employees supervised, the quality of the training offered and the impact on the apprentice experience should all be taken into account.
4. Demonstrated ability to work intersectorally: the candidate’s contributions to their field is remarkable and recognized by several players from different backgrounds (clinical, academic, community, user, etc.). The number of collaborators who recognize the person’s contributions and the general appreciation of the person expressed by collaborators from different backgrounds should be taken into account.
5. Exceptional commitment: the individual demonstrates a sustained and remarkable commitment to fulfilling their regular professional responsibilities and activities with the CRIR community. This commitment is noted by several partners. Personal efforts freely made to develop or mobilize knowledge should be taken into account.

 

Submitting an application | To committee of good-minded people of CRIR’s administrative office

Nominations for one (1) Clinician/Healthcare Professionals member/finalist must be submitted by the local committee of a CRIR establishment.

Note: It is not mandatory for an establishment to submit a nomination for each competition.

Submitting an application:

• Application deadline: Thursday, October 5, 2023, 4 p.m.
• Applications must be sent by e-mail to: crir@ssss.gouv.qc.ca
• The application file includes in a single PDF :
  • A cover letter of 2 to 3 pages (maximum), which must clearly demonstrate that the application meets the evaluation criteria.
  • The letter must be constructed following the order of the criteria: 1) Impact on the practice environment, 2) Impact on outreach, 3) Impact on the training on the next generation, 4) Demonstrated ability to work intersectorally, 5) Exceptional commitment). Most applications will meet several of the criteria but not necessarily all of them. In this case, respect the order but omit the superfluous criteria; instead, focus on the criteria you can highlight.

To receive the prize, and for promotional purposes in CRIR’s communications tools, the following documents will be requested from the recipient:

• A photograph;
• Administrative information: Profession, exact title, contact details, CRIR establishment, number of years at CRIR, collaborating with which teams and which researcher members at CRIR.

 

Note to local committees leaders:

An official certificate: Finalist – Bonnie Swaine Recognition Award 2023 “Honorable Mention” will be awarded to the Clinician/Healthcare Professionals member you have named as a finalist in your establishment.

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CRIR | June 14, 2023