Foundations of Team-Based Primary Care

Primary care is facing a crisis.  Canada’s population is aging, and chronic health conditions are now the leading cause of disability and death. While there has been significant transformation in the past 20 years, more than 6.5 M Canadians are without a primary care provider.   Interprofessional primary care teams are seen as a core solution to provide Canadians with increased access and ensure comprehensive and coordinated care across the lifespan (Canadian College of Family Physicians). Occupational therapists, as members of these interprofessional primary care teams, are poised to play an important role in supporting primary care across the country. Course overview The course provides occupational therapists with foundational knowledge about primary care and the services they can provide in this setting.  The module introduces learners to primary care, including definitions, core elements, equity-oriented primary care, models to support collaborative interprofessional practice and case examples.  This module has been collaboratively developed with six professions and designed to provide a common understanding of primary care for all interprofessional primary care providers.

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

1.         Define and describe the core elements of primary care

2.         Describe commonly used models of primary care in Canada

3.         Define components of culturally safer, equity-oriented primary care.

4.         Describe strategies to promote interprofessional collaboration within a primary care setting.

5.         Identify the breadth of roles and scopes of practice in interprofessional primary care.

Target audience 

Occupational therapy learners and practitioners, as well as interprofessional health practitioners who are interested in primary care. 

 Time commitment 

Each module will take approximately between 90-120 minutes to complete. 

Language 

English

Project Team

This interprofessional collaborative project was funded by the Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine. The project team was led by Catherine Donnelly and Nicole Bobbette, Andrew Freeman, Lori Letts, Carri Hand, Pam Wener, Cara Brown, Lisa Diamond-Burchuk, Leanne Leclair, Kaarina Valavaara, Angie Phenix, Hélène Sabourin & Josée Séguin.

This purchase provides individual access to this online course for 120 days following purchase. Access the online course immediately following purchase by selecting this online course on My Dashboard on CAOT's learning management system (LMS), using your CAOT My Account login information. Please visit the Professional Development FAQ for additional information. If you have any questions, please contact CAOT's Professional Development team at education@caot.ca.