Primary Health Care Practitioner Forum

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Primary Health Care Practitioner Forum

• Enhancing InterdisciplinaryCollaboration in
  Primary Health Care (EICPHC)

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EICP Background

• 6.5M Contribution Agreement from Health Canada
  
  
  
  
  (PHCTF) with 10 National Health Care
  Associations
  
  
  
  to Support Change Process
• Defined Primary Health Care,
  Interdisciplinary
  
  
  
  Collaboration
• Principles and Framework, How to Tool Kit
• Research, Consultations, Interactive Website
• 16 Regional Consultations in September

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Introductions

• Your name
• Professional designation
• Funny story from your practice/work setting

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Agenda for the Forum

• Morning
• Introductions and Orientations
• Environmental Scan
• Todays Reality The Practitioner Work Setting
• Primary Health Care in 2015

• Afternoon
• Clinical Vignette Exercise
• Principles of
• Collaboration
• Solutions to EICP
• Closing

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EICP Objectives

• To gather critical practitioner data on
  interdisciplinary collaboration in primary health
  care issues and challenges facing reform
• Develop 1st approximation of the principles
• Create awareness of the barriers to
  interdisciplinary collaboration in primary health
  care.

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Expectations

• My principal objective for this session is
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Environmental Scan

• What significant conditions or events have you
  seen in the last 5 years that will influence the
  future of the Primary Health Care System?

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Todays Reality The Practitioners Work Setting

• Describe your quality of life and job
  satisfaction as a practitioner in primary health
  care?
• In your work setting, what are the key challenges
  you face in the delivery of primary health care?
  communication, care plan development, shared
  electronic patient records?
• What are your current individual attitudes and
  perceptions towards interdisciplinary
  collaboration in primary health care?

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Primary Health Care in 2015

• In the future, what will the Primary Health Care
  environment look like if current trends prevail?
  What is the most probable future environment?
• Looking out ten years to the year 2015, what
  would you like the Primary Health Care
  environment to look like? The most desirable
  future environment?

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Experiencing Interdisciplinary Collaboration-
Individual

• You have been working in a small urban primary
  health care clinic for over fifteen years. Ms.
  Judy Strebor, a fifty-five year old mildly obese
  female, presents to your clinic with a
  long-standing history of diabetes. She has
  multiple complaints, which she would like you to
  address.

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Experiencing Interdisciplinary Collaboration -
Individual

• What is the most likely reason that Ms. Strebor
  has come to see you?
• Briefly describe the process you would follow to
  arrive at a diagnosis/clinical impression.
• How can you help Mrs. Strebor?

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Experiencing Interdisciplinary Collaboration-
Team

• You have been working in a interdisciplinary
  urban primary health care centre for over fifteen
  years. Judy Strebor, a fifty-five year old
  mildly obese female, presents to your clinic with
  a long-standing history of diabetes. She has
  multiple complaints, which she would like you to
  address.

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Experiencing Interdisciplinary Collaboration -
Team

• What is the most likely reason that Ms. Strebor
  has come to see your team at the health centre?
• Briefly describe the process your team would
  follow to arrive at a diagnosis/clinical
  impression.
• How can your team help Mrs. Strebor?

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Experiencing Interdisciplinary Collaboration

• What were some of the differences between the
  individual assessment and the group assessment on
  these three questions?
• What surprised you?

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Experiencing Interdisciplinary Collaboration

• What did you like about the group process? What
  worked well?
• What didnt you like about it? What didn't work
  well?

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Experiencing Interdisciplinary Collaboration

• What was really going on in the group discussion?
  What were the underlying values or factors being
  expressed?

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Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Primary Health
Care Setting

• Based on the literature review provided what
  values or principles for interdisciplinary
  collaboration are missing?

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Solutions for Enhancing Collaboration

• What solutions or strategies are needed to
  overcome the challenges facing Interdisciplinary
  Care in PHC.
• What role does leadership play and where will it
  come from?

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