The Gateway to Team-Based Care will be a provincial centre for collaborative health education, interdisciplinary research, and innovation in team-based primary care. It will be located in the Gateway Building with expected occupancy in late 2024.
The Gateway to Team-Based Care aims to build capacity for collaborative health education to advance and accelerate the delivery of patient-centered, team-based primary care. It will support learners from across the health disciplines to work and learn in a team environment through collaborative health education—building capacity of health professional graduates and a future workforce prepared to work in team-based care that will ultimately enhance patient and caregiver experience and improve the health of people in British Columbia.
Students will have the opportunity to gain experience in interprofessional teamwork and collaboration in a primary care setting, develop innovative approaches to team-based care, and recognize the value of diverse perspectives and roles in the team. The Gateway to Team-Based Care will enable students to be better equipped to carry the requisite knowledge, skills, and values into their future practice of collaborative, interprofessional, team-based patient care.
Building on the BC Government’s commitment to improving access to and advancing team-based primary care, the Gateway to Team-Based Care will align with best practices and scholarship in collaborative health education to provide innovative and scalable approaches in training within team-based care service delivery models for dissemination across British Columbia.
Vision: A provincial primary care system that meets population needs
Mission: Innovate, evaluate, demonstrate, and translate
collaborative health education for effective team-based primary care
Building from a patient-centred perspective
There are three elements to the Gateway to Team-Based Care:
Delivery of team-based primary care
Collaborative interprofessional health education
Interdisciplinary evaluation, research, and knowledge exchange
The Gateway to Team-Based Care will support patients, caregivers, and communities with their primary care needs. Through the provision of on-site and virtual care, as well as outreach and group programs, the Gateway to Team-Based Care will exemplify best practices in patient-centred, team-based primary care. Integrating the services from many health professions, it will serve the primary care needs of the community and address barriers in accessing primary care services while improving patient experience and outcomes. The Gateway to Team-Based Care will ultimately serve as a team-based primary care site that innovates to advance and accelerate the delivery of patient-centered, team-based interprofessional primary care.
FOR: People living near UBC who cannot access primary care
THROUGH: Team-based primary care that is continuous, comprehensive, and integrated with a network of community services
FROM: Many health professions’ clinician educators and trainees providing care as an interprofessional team in collaborative relationship with patients, community and caregivers
Collaborative Health Education
The Gateway to Team-Based Care will build on practices across the province to develop and provide education to health professional trainees in an innovative, team-based model in the clinic setting. The education models, tools, and resources will be developed for use in other team-based sites and education programs in BC. The Gateway to Team-Based Care will advance innovative approaches in collaborative health education to prepare the future workforce for an evolving clinical environment. The co-creation of educational models will lead learners and clinicians involved in this applied learning experience to serve as current and future practitioners, leaders, and preceptors for, and promoters of, team-based care within the province.
FOR: Health professionals-in-training and health practitioners wanting to enhance their skills to provide team-based care
THROUGH: Student placements, fellowships, and other collaborative education delivery methods where professions teach and learn together in the care setting
FROM: Clinical educators designing and leading innovative interprofessional practice education
Interdisciplinary Evaluation and Research
The Gateway to Team-Based Care will seek to address the gap between siloed health professional clinical education and the developing collaborative practice environment.
It will design and test collaborative practice education models for team-based care to inform and enhance pre- and post-licensure practice education at BC sites by leveraging learning from real-world applications of innovative education models and further refining and improving these interprofessional teaching models through an iterative process so that the models can be expanded and scaled provincially.
The Gateway to Team-Based Care will seek to address the gap between siloed health professional clinical education and the developing collaborative practice environment.
It will design and test collaborative practice education models for team-based care to inform and enhance pre- and post-licensure practice education at BC sites by leveraging learning from real-world applications of innovative education models and further refining and improving these interprofessional teaching models through an iterative process so that the models can be expanded and scaled provincially.
The Gateway to Team-Based Care has the potential for bidirectional learning and iterations on models of education and practice with other sites and programs, both within and outside UBC.
It can serve as a connector of clinical educators who support a network of interprofessional clinical placements to build capacity for collaborative health education among many partners and programs across the province.
FOR: The system, i.e. educators in BC (and potential educators) working with team-based care sites or education programs/initiatives for health professions
THROUGH: Testing, disseminating, and enabling innovations designed for BC’s team-based primary care
FROM: Clinician educators collaborating with BC initiatives/teams supporting team-based practice and health professional education
More information
UBC Health is currently engaging with program, community, and health sector partners on the development and implementation of the Gateway to Team-Based Care. If you have any questions, contact Ben Fair, Assistant Director, Health Systems, UBC Health.
