Recruitment and Retention of Bilingual Health Professionals in the Magdalen Islands

The project seeks to support the CISSS des Îles in recruiting and retaining bilingual health professionals as a means of increasing access to health and social services in English. More precisely, CAMI intends to support the CISSS des Îles in developing and implementing strategies that support the integration of current and future health professionals into the CISSS and the Magdalen Islands in general.

This is being achieved through:

Promotion and administration of the Dialogue McGill Community Network Bursary Program, which includes the creation of a Management Committee for the bursary program with participation from CAMI and the CISSS des Iles. In collaboration with this Committee, identify HR gaps and prioritize positions to be filled, create an evaluation tool and evaluation criteria to support the evaluation process for bursary applications, promote the program in the region via social media and other media, manage the application process and carry out liaison work with McGill and generally carry out the administrative responsibilities of the Bursary program. Targets are to allocate regular bursaries and a targeted bursary annually.

Development and implementation of “conversation cafés”, which includes collaboration with the CISSS des Îles to identify a team of professionals to participate in ‘’conversation café’’ type training sessions, recruit a coordinator to develop and coordinate the program and run at least one session annually.