Interprofessional Collaboration as the anchor of team based primary care

AFHTO members are made up of diverse teams of professionals working together to provide excellent patient care. This interactive workshop, hosted by AFHTO’s IHP Communities of Practice, guided FHT/NPLC staff and providers through exercises designed to strengthen interprofessional collaboration. This 3 hour workshop was divided into two segments. Members could attend one or both of these.

(I) Knowing How to Play and What to Build in the Sandbox We Call Primary Healthcare — A Vision for Ontario’s Primary Care Teams

Presented by Dr. Ivy Oandasan, Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto

Click here to access the slides from the workshop. Workshop for all staff and health care providers in FHTs and NPLCs to develop building a common understanding of what it looks like and what it means to work in an interprofessional team. By the end of this interactive workshop participants will:

1. Learn from and celebrate successes of our collective advancement of interprofessional collaboration
2. Identify structures, processes, practices and behaviors required to foster an interprofessional quality focused and patient centred culture of primary care

Commit to being agents of change within our own primary care settings supporting tangible, feasible and measurable interprofessional collaboration possibilities.

(II) Profession-Based Networking Sessions

Presented by the AFHTO Community of Practice Leads

This was an opportunity for all members to meet, mingle and share insights with peers in similar roles from across Ontario. Agendas for each session were developed by their Community of Practice Lead. The AFHTO IHP Communities of Practice are a member-driven initiative, led by dedicated IHP volunteers from teams across the province and supported by AFHTO. They provide resources, advice and opportunities for staff and clinicians in primary care teams. The following groups and communities of practice participated and hosted a networking session:

  To learn more about and join an IHP Community of Practice click here.

Accreditation

• Attendance at this program was certified Canadian College of Health Leaders members (CHE / Fellow) for up to  1.5 Category II credits.
• This program was accredited by the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Ontario Chapter for up to 3 Mainpro-M1 credits.

Archive

• In 2014, we offered profession-based programming by and for 12 communities of practice.
  • See 2014 pre-conference program information here.
• In 2013, we offered profession-based programming by and for 9 communities of practice.
  • See 2013 pre-conference program information here.