CHL5625H – Team Based Primary Care: Principles, Practices and Transformation Concepts
Course Description This course is rooted in Clinical Public Health to explore the principles, strategies, and practices of team-based healthcare. The curriculum provides learners with the opportunity to explore the intersection of primary care, interprofessional competencies and patient outcomes to thoughtfully design service delivery models that are evidence based, forward thinking and foster a culture of safety and quality in healthcare settings.
Prerequisites:
Licensed health care professionals, administrators, and researchers who have at least one year of experience in patient-provider relationships. There are no formal course prerequisites. However, course assignments require a clinical health care background and experience with patient-provider relationship. This course is well suited to students in the MPH (FCM) and the MScCH streams.
Learning Objectives:
Identify and describe current primary care delivery models within the Canadian healthcare system/compare to international models – understand the principle of team-based care
Improved interprofessional collaboration, communication, and leadership – team communication tools, EDI in primary care teams, leadership skills for conflict management in team settings, identifying roles of different healthcare professionals in the primary care team model
Application of frameworks to practice
Patient outcome indicators and the role of quality improvement in team-based care
Design an optimal primary care team and apply to own practice setting – team work, networking, collaborating, model implementation and optimized delivery plans
Student Testimonials: “Thank you for a thought-provoking and paradigm-shifting course on such a timely topic in primary care. I am now leading a FHT-based effort to attach patients to HCPs in a team-based model, this is the future of primary care in Ontario." - Justin McNish, Physician, MPH FCM Advanced Standing Student
“As a health professional, creating a team-based environment for the best patient outcomes is a goal that I aspire to, and Team-based Primary Care helped me build practical skills while understanding the theory behind successful implementation.” -Eugene Lei, Paramedicine, MPH FCM Student
" The opportunity to hear and learn from students in many health professions helped to deepen my understanding of what it takes to have a high-functioning team-based care model. Ultimately, I would like to apply the course learnings to policy and advocacy work. " -Daphne To, Chiropractor, IHPME PhD candidate
