CHL8010H F4 – 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 with experience with patient-provider relationships (at least 1 year experience in patient care as a clinical provider is recommended). 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 .
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
