Gateway to Team-Based Care
The Gateway to Team-Based Care is a first-of-its-kind provincial centre, providing an opportunity for students, educators, healthcare professionals, researchers, and patients to work together to improve the quality of primary care through innovations in interprofessional learning, teamwork, and research. It will integrate multiple professions learning alongside one another, while implementing and evaluating new models of team-based education and practice and spreading innovations to teams across BC.
What Makes Gateway Unique?
What sets Gateway apart from other healthcare settings and team-based care clinics in the province is its strategic positioning within UBC, enabling seamless integration of learners, researchers, educators, interprofessional teams of healthcare professionals, and patients.
Aligned with the BC Government's commitment to expanding access to team-based primary care, the Gateway to Team-Based Care will incorporate best practices in collaborative health education and develop innovative, scalable training models for team-based care that can be adopted across the province.
At the heart of Gateway, educators, students, providers, researchers, patients and caregivers will work together on all aspects of primary care—making it a truly collaborative space for learning and innovation.
The Gateway to Team-Based Care has three core elements:
The primary goal of Gateway is to build capacity for collaborative health education. 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 equip students with the requisite knowledge, skills, and values for collaborative, interprofessional, team-based patient care.
Gateway will serve as a hub for research and knowledge exchange on team-based care and education, driving innovation and continuous improvement in care and education delivery. It will act as a place to develop and test evidence-informed practices in collaborative health education, providing effective, innovative and scalable models for team-based education and service delivery for dissemination across British Columbia.
Gateway will offer comprehensive primary healthcare services, accepting patients who live in Vancouver and need ongoing access to primary healthcare providers. Patients will experience coordinated, seamless care from an interprofessional team where they are supported to actively participate in their care. The clinic will provide both virtual and in-person care, ensuring accessibility and convenience for all patients.
Located on UBC’s Vancouver campus, the Gateway building is currently under construction, with completion and occupancy expected in 2026.
The Gateway to Team-Based Care is a strategic initiative led by UBC Health in partnership with ten health professional programs at UBC with funding support from the BC Ministry of Health’s Primary Care Division.
If you have any questions about Gateway, contact Ben Fair, Assistant Director, Health Systems, UBC Health at: ben.fair@ubc.ca