TY - JOUR
KW - Attitude of Health Personnel
KW - Delivery of Health Care
KW - Education, Medical, Graduate
KW - Education, Nursing
KW - Family Practice/education/methods
KW - Female
KW - Health Care Surveys
KW - Humans
KW - Interprofessional Relations
KW - Male
KW - Needs Assessment
KW - Ontario
KW - Patient Care Team/organization & administration
KW - Physicians, Family
KW - Primary Health Care/organization & administration
KW - Questionnaires
AU - S. Soklaridis
AU - I. Oandasan
AU - S. Kimpton
A1 - 
AB - OBJECTIVE: To learn what educators across the health professions involved in primary health care think about the use and development of academic family health teams to provide, teach, and model interprofessional collaboration and about the introduction of interprofessional education (IPE) within structured academic primary care. DESIGN: Qualitative study using focus groups. SETTING: Higher education institutions across Ontario. PARTICIPANTS: Purposeful sample of 36 participants from nursing, pharmacy, speech language pathology, occupational and physical therapy, social work, and family medicine. METHOD: Participants were invited to join focus groups of 6 to 8 health professionals. Themes were derived from qualitative analysis of data gathered using a grounded-theory approach. MAIN FINDINGS: Three major themes were identified: the lack of consensus on opportunities for future academic family health teams to teach IPE, the lack of formalized teaching of interprofessional collaboration and the fact that what little has been developed is primarily for family physicians and hardly at all for other health professionals, and the confusion around the definition of IPE across health professions. CONCLUSION: The future role of family health teams in academic primary care settings as a place for learners to see teamwork in action and to learn collaboration needs to be examined. Unless academic settings are developed to provide the necessary training for primary health care professionals to work in teams, a new generation of health care professionals will continue to work in status quo environments, and reform initiatives are unlikely to become sustainable over time.
BT - Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien
C5 - Education & Workforce
CP - 7
CY - Canada
IS - 7
JF - Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien
N2 - OBJECTIVE: To learn what educators across the health professions involved in primary health care think about the use and development of academic family health teams to provide, teach, and model interprofessional collaboration and about the introduction of interprofessional education (IPE) within structured academic primary care. DESIGN: Qualitative study using focus groups. SETTING: Higher education institutions across Ontario. PARTICIPANTS: Purposeful sample of 36 participants from nursing, pharmacy, speech language pathology, occupational and physical therapy, social work, and family medicine. METHOD: Participants were invited to join focus groups of 6 to 8 health professionals. Themes were derived from qualitative analysis of data gathered using a grounded-theory approach. MAIN FINDINGS: Three major themes were identified: the lack of consensus on opportunities for future academic family health teams to teach IPE, the lack of formalized teaching of interprofessional collaboration and the fact that what little has been developed is primarily for family physicians and hardly at all for other health professionals, and the confusion around the definition of IPE across health professions. CONCLUSION: The future role of family health teams in academic primary care settings as a place for learners to see teamwork in action and to learn collaboration needs to be examined. Unless academic settings are developed to provide the necessary training for primary health care professionals to work in teams, a new generation of health care professionals will continue to work in status quo environments, and reform initiatives are unlikely to become sustainable over time.
PP - Canada
PY - 2007
SN - 1715-5258; 0008-350X
SP - 1198
EP - 1199
EP - 
T1 - Family health teams: Can health professionals learn to work together?
T2 - Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien
TI - Family health teams: Can health professionals learn to work together?
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 17872817
VL - 53
VO - 1715-5258; 0008-350X
Y1 - 2007
ER -