Training and education

Alberta Medical Association Practice Management Program (AMA)

It provides business related advice to family physicians as they develop Primary Care Networks (LPCIs). Specifically developing physician leaders, governance structures, mitigating risk (legal, business, financial, tax), managing change and letters of intent/business plans. The AMA also has clinical practice guideline program. www.albertadoctors.org

Building a Better Tomorrow

This initiative has developed training modules for health care professionals as they move through the PHC change process. Modules are now being used across the four Atlantic provinces (Nova Scotia is the lead for this initiative) Modules developed or under development include:

• Understanding Primary Health Care
• Collaboration in Practice
• Facilitating Adult Learning I & II
• Team Building I & II
• Conflict Resolution
• Building Community Relationships
• Program Planning and Evaluation

Sharon Samland, Project Manager, (904) 424-2496, samlansh@gov.ns.ca

Centre for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education

This center, based in the U.S., is dedicated to creating an atmosphere of openness and commitment to interprofessional practice for the next century. It offers courses on interprofessional competencies, issues in interdisciplinary health care, interprofessional collaborative teams, etc. http://interprofessional.washington.edu/about.asp

Centre for Interprofessional Practice

The centre is part of the Institute of Health at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, which is a joint initiative across the Schools of Health to deliver teaching and research on interprofessional learning. The Centre has team-based education packages that have been developed to support active health/social care teams in enhancing their team working skills and improving their understanding of the different professional roles involved in patient/client care. http://www.uea.ac.uk/cipp/

The College of Health Disciplines, University of British Columbia

The college is currently being restructured. Various courses are available including a population health approach, health care team development, and health care ethics http://www.health-disciplines.ubc.ca/index.php

Enhancing Primary Health Care: Learning and Applying Facilitation within a Systems Model

There is a growing body of knowledge supporting the use of facilitation as a vehicle for change. Facilitation can be applied to a broad range of PHC elements and systems, including inter-professional team building, community engagement, organizational change, and audit and evaluation activities. This initiative is developing a manual for facilitators and managers, primarily at the district/regional level. A draft manual has been developed, and includes an extensive list of tools currently in use across Canada. Contact: Department of Health and Community Service, NL

Facilitation Guide English Version
Facilitation Guide French Version

Health Sciences Council

The mission of the Health Sciences Council (HSC) is to champion interdisciplinary health sciences research, education and community service at the University of Alberta. All Health Science students at the University of Alberta are required to take a core Interdisciplinary course. This intensive course provides health science students with an overview of the theory and application of working in teams. Also do clinical placements of teams. http://www.healthscience.ualberta.ca/

Improving Chronic Illness Care

This site is committed to disseminating the best in improvement resources to chronic care innovators and researchers. It includes clinical tools such as assessment of chronic illness care, tools for patients, collaborative training manuals, and more. www.improvingchroniccare.org/tools/index.html

Interdisciplinary Health Care Team Practice

This is a learning module for students (and others) from the District of Columbia AHEC (Area Health Education Centre). It is a resource linked to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services site. The module contains learning on:

• Interdisciplinary Team Case
• Historical Background
• Models Of Team Practice
• The Interdisciplinary Teamwork System Model
• Interdisciplinary Team Building
• Members of the Health Care Team

http://dcahec.gwumc.edu/education/session3/

Interprofessional Network of British Columbia

This network is a partnership between health and post-secondary educational organizations. Goal is to improve healthcare through interprofessional education and patient-centred practice. Openly accessible, online interprofessional learning modules are currently being developed. 40 topics are being considered for development. http://www.in-bc.ca/about/aboutus.php

McMaster University Nursing and Health Care leadership courses/Management Distance Education Program

Courses available for nurses that include: Leadership/Management; Conflict Management; Leading Effective Teams in Health Organizations; Decentralized Budgeting and Total Quality Management. www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/nursing/distance/distance.htm

Pilot Project in PHC Team Development

Saskatchewan Health through a partnership with Med-Emerg International and the Centre for Strategic Management (CSM) developed a pilot project on interdisciplinary primary health care teams. It contains team effectiveness tools, team charter templates, and team facilitator workshops. As part of Action Plan have funded Directors or Primary Health Care in each of Regional Health Authorities (RHAs) to support team development. As a result of team development project also funded team facilitators in each of RHAs. The team focus developed in Saskatchewan was based on systems thinking. CSM uses a five step approach “ABCDE” model to lead organizations through change. It involves developing the organization's desired state and implementing a road map for change (essentially a strategic planning process). ). http://www.health.gov.sk.ca/ps_phs_teamdev.pdf

Primary Care Leadership Program

It is focused on identifying key ideas and organizational practices for improving primary care and a model for adapting these ideas into the practices of Ontario's caregivers. The revised materials will be made available to others groups interested in promoting training in this area. http://www.chsrf.ca/research_themes/pdf/Inventory_of_Projects.pdf. Data not available until March 2006 Contact: Ross Baker, University of Toronto Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. baker@utoronto.ca

Nov. 10 2005 Revised Module.pdf

Provincial Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Leader Training Program

The purpose of this leadership training program is to: build resources & expertise in all Primary Care Networks and Regional Health Authorities; and ensure comprehensive province-wide support of chronic disease self-management programs. The Stanford CDSMP workshop helps people manage their life with chronic disease; increase health self-management skills and self-confidence; and enhance the skills required to problem solve and make decisions related to living a healthy life with a chronic condition. http://www.health.gov.ab.ca/professionals/index.html#Resources

The United Kingdom Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE)

CAIPE's focus is on ways of enabling professions, in the university and the workplace, to learn from and about each other, foster mutual respect, overcome barriers to collaboration and engender action. It promotes interprofessional learning which actively involves service users and local communities as essential partners http://www.caipe.org.uk.