About Team Primary Care
Team Primary Care - Training for Transformation was a unique and timely initiative that aimed to accelerate transformative change in the way primary care practitioners train to work together. To do so, it brought together an extensive network of partners to enhance the capacity of interprofessional comprehensive primary care (CPC) through improved training for practitioners, supports for teams, and tools for planners and employers.
Team Primary Care aimed to prepare primary care providers to work in teams, in tandem with the health system reforms needed to adopt the delivery of more and better CPC. Ultimately, by better preparing new and existing primary care practitioners, Canadians will have better access to equitable primary care close to home.
TPC’s Vision:
An integrated health system in which every individual receives equitable, high quality, comprehensive care from a well-trained, well-supported and optimally utilized primary care team.
TPC’s Mission:
Our mission is to transform primary care training and education, equipping Canada’s workforce for effective team-based care.
In support of the four primary care core functions:
(first) Contact
Comprehensiveness
Coordination
Continuity
Primary care education in Canada should result in teams committed to these five principles:
Interprofessionalism
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion & Accessibility
Truth and Reconciliation
Psychological Health & Safety
Social Accountability
Team Primary Care was an interprofessional initiative of the Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine funded by Employment and Social Development Canada. It was co-led by the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Canadian Health Workforce Network, in partnership with over 100 health professional and educational organizations across Canada.
Team Primary Care Leadership
Project Secretariat
Co-Lead, Team Primary Care
Director of Education, College of Family Physicians of Canada
Dr. Ivy Oandasan
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Ivy Oandasan is a Full Professor with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto and an active family physician who has been involved in teaching and research since 1997. She led a national research team that conducted the environmental scan and literature review on the evidence for interprofessional education for collaborative patient centred practice that was funded and ultimately used by Health Canada in 2004. Now, as the Director of Education at the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC), she leads the program evaluation and supports the implementation of proposed changes for family medicine education.
Co-Lead, Team Primary Care
Lead, Canadian Health Workforce Network
Dr. Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
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Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, PhD, is a Professor in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa and the University Research Chair in Gender, Diversity and the Professions. She leads the Canadian Health Workforce Network and the Empowering Women Leaders in Health initiative. Dr. Bourgeault has garnered an international reputation for her research on the health workforce, particularly from a gender lens. She has been a consultant to various provincial Ministries of Health in Canada, to Health Canada, the pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the OECD and to the World Health Organization. She was inducted into the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in September 2016 and received the 2016/17 University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Research.
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Jasbir Sunner
Project Manager, Team Primary Care
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Dale McMurchy
Project Manager, Team Primary Care
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Lissa Manganaro
Project Coordinator, Team Primary Care
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Lorelei Nardi
Project Coordinator, ACES Committee, Team Primary Care
About The Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine
The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) has played an important role in family medicine in Canada since it began in 1954. To better serve the future of family medicine, the Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine (FAFM; formerly known as the Research and Education Foundation) was established in 1994. Contributions to the FAFM continue to fund numerous awards, grants, and scholarships, as well as initiatives to support the training and continuing professional development of medical students, family medicine residents, and family physicians.
About The College of Family Physicians of Canada
The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) is the professional organization that represents more than 42,000 members across the country. The College establishes the standards for and accredits postgraduate family medicine training in Canada's 17 medical schools. It reviews and certifies continuing professional development programs and materials that enable family physicians to meet certification and licensing requirements. The CFPC provides high-quality services, supports family medicine teaching and research, and advocates on behalf of the specialty of family medicine, family physicians, and the patients they serve.
About The Canadian Health Workforce Network
The Canadian Health Workforce Network is a knowledge exchange network of researchers, decision-makers, and other knowledge users with expertise in health workforce planning, policy and management. Its internationally recognized, interdisciplinary and intersectoral health workforce research expertise provides an excellent foundation to lead large, multi-stakeholder projects to address complex health workforce challenges, while building capacity in both official languages.