Coping Profiles of Cancer Patients With Different Functional and Psychosocial Status: A Person-Oriented Approach

learning, networking, collaboration, “healthy” competition, social, and financial support. Through the reliance on information technology, face-to-face exchanges, dedicated workshops and research internships, PORT’s program offers varied and innovative research skills building activities which have been throughout the years instrumental in shaping the developing career of its trainees. RESEARCH IMPLICATIONS: In a field as competitive as research, an excellent training experience is invaluable in building capacity. Research training programs such as PORT enhance the development of skills and competencies to enable fellows to design and carry-out innovative, high quality, person-centred, and feasible studies. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Supporting aspiring young researchers to think outside the box, design timely studies, innovate in their field, and proactively disseminate their results can directly contribute to enhancing clinical practice. The knowledge gained through such training programs set the conditions and contexts that most favorably launch junior researchers into an exciting career. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF FUNDING: Julie Lapointe is currently a postdoctorate CIHR Fellow in PORT a Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research (STIHR) funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). Fay Strohschein has received funding from the FRQ-S; the Quebec Network for Research on Aging, the PORT Program; the McGill University Faculty of Medicine; and the Jewish General Hospital Department of Nursing. Shannon Groff is funded through the Alberta Cancer Foundation, the PORT Program, Knowledge Translation Canada and the CIHR.