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The September 2024 supplement of Healthcare Management Forum is a very special collaboration between the Canadian College of Health Leaders and The Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine. It focuses exclusively on the Team Primary Care initiative.
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In this edition:
Team Primary Care: Training for Transformation, a project launched in 2022 and funded by Employment and Social Development Canada, brought together more than 100 health professional and educational organizations with the goal of accelerating transformation change in the way primary care practitioners train to work together.
Team Primary Care’s goal is to help create a more sustainable system by transforming interprofessional care training in Canada. Team-based care allows for better patient access, as people receive medical care when they need it from the appropriate provider and are actively engaged in their care. Team-based care also increases healthcare capacity, enabling more Canadians, including Indigenous people, the elderly, and those living in rural settings to gain timely access.
WEBINAR
Join us for a webinar on October 1, at noon, EDT, with Cecilia Benoit, PhD, and Andrea Mellor, PhD. Cecilia is a Scientist at the Canadian Institute of Substance Use Research and Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on social equities in employment, health and healthcare for people who face structural disadvantage and unfair treatment in Canadian society. Andrea Mellor is a post-doctoral fellow and Michael Smith Research Trainee at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research, University of Victoria. Her research centres on community-based participatory projects that focus on co-designing structural interventions to improve the health and wellness of marginalized populations.
This webinar will describe the benefits of integrating midwifery into a primary healthcare clinic and the continued challenges midwives and their teams face in securing salaried employment long-term. The speakers will focus on the specialized cultural and clinical skillset that Indigenous registered midwives in particular bring to primary care, and the life-saving outcomes that can occur for youth clients if interprofessional collaboration and cooperation are well-established. This session is moderated by Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, PhD, a Professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa. She leads the Canadian Health Workforce Network, the Empowering Women Leaders in Health initiative and co-leads the Team Primary Care: Training for Transformation project.
PODCAST
Listen to the podcast by Rachelle Ashcroft, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, speak about a collaborative process she and her team developed to enhance team-based primary care, drawing on experiences of six disciplines working together to create new curricula as part of Team Primary Care. They assert that building capacity requires an understanding of unique disciplinary roles and elements of primary care, and establishing primary care competencies would provide a common set of skills, knowledge, values and attitudes to form a foundation on which to build the capacity of the interprofessional primary care workforce. This session is moderated by Catherine Donnelly, PhD, an Associate Professor in Rehabilitation Therapy at Queen’s University. Catherine’s work is focused on team-based primary care with an emphasis on understanding how interprofessional primary care teams can support older adults and individuals with chronic conditions to live in their neighbourhoods and communities.
BLOG
Read the blog by Maxime Lê, founder and principal of Lê & Co. Health Communication Santé, a bilingual health communications firm. He is a patient partner with The Ottawa Hospital and Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, serves on the Board of Directors of the Patient Advisors Network, and co-chairs the Ontario Health East Patient and Family Advisory Council. Maxime writes about the importance of team-based care from a patient’s perspective – something that is often lost in the narratives surrounding healthcare. His recommendations include breaking open our teaching curriculums to emphasize interprofessional collaboration, sharing responsibilities and pooling expertise, and treating patients as whole people.
VIDEO
Implementing team-based primary care necessitates a comprehensive system strategy. Watch the video on team-based care. Checkout the video on team-based care on the TPC homepage.
VIDEO
Team Primary Care’s goal is to help create a more sustainable system by transforming interprofessional care training in Canada. Team-based care allows for better patient access, as people receive medical care when they need it from the appropriate provider and are actively engaged in their care. Team-based care also increases healthcare capacity, enabling more Canadians, including Indigenous people, the elderly, and those living in rural settings to gain timely access. Find out more here about this initiative.
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