IHSE Meeting

(9:00 - 10:00)
Louis Pierre Auger, Postdoctoral Fellow
Supervisor: Aliki Thomas
Improving participation in sexuality for Canadians with disabilities through implementation science and health professions education

LOUIS PIERRE AUGER is an occupational therapist (Université de Sherbrooke, 2013) and has worked as a clinician for more than five years in intensive functional rehabilitation with clients with neurological health conditions, especially individuals with stroke. He completed a master's degree (2019) and a doctorate (2023) in rehabilitation sciences at the Université de Montréal on the subjects of sexuality, neurology, knowledge translation and improvement of clinical practices. Mr. Auger is doing a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Aliki Thomas at the Institute of Health Sciences

(10:00 - 11:00)
Catherine Auger-Morin, Scholarship Elective participant
Supervisor: Maryam Wagner
Title: An Exploration of Differential Item Functioning (DIF) on the Canadian English Language Benchmark Assessment for Nurses (CELBAN)

CATHERINE AUGER-MORIN is a 4^th year medical student at McGill University. She completed her bachelor degree in Chemistry at Lake Forest College, Illinois USA where she also played soccer. She has always had an interest for education, whether it was through coaching, private tutoring, peer teaching, or being an Ultrasound instructor. She looks forward to working with Prof Wagner on their project focusing on Differential item functioning in the Canadian English Language Benchmark Assessment for Nurses (CELBAN) to continue optimizing student’s opportunities.

Goal of the project:

Investigate the extent to which certain test items in the Canadian English Language Benchmark Assessment for Nurses (CELBAN) differ across participants based on their lengths of residence in Canada and location of nursing school as a proxy measure for the level of familiarity with Canadian culture.