Team-based care, built from the ground up.
The Team-Based Care Teaching Clinic at Gateway brings together 10 health professional programs to deliver team-based care, train the next generation, and test models that scale across BC.
| Opening | Mid-2026 |
| Location | UBC Vancouver Campus |
| Patients | Vancouver residents (via Provincial Attachment System and the Health Connect Registry) |
| Model | Inter-professional team-based long primary care with a focus on education and research |
| Disciplines | Dietetics, Family Medicine, Kinesiology (Certified Exercise Physiologist), Midwifery, Nursing (RN & NP), Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Social Work |
Collaborative Education Students from 10+ disciplines learning together in a real-world, supervised clinical environment, building skills for interprofessional education and collaborative, team-based care.
Community Care Coordinated, comprehensive primary care where patients are active partners in their health care team. Virtual and in-person options designed for accessibility.
Research & Innovation A clinic designed for developing, testing, and scaling new models of team-based care and interprofessional education across British Columbia.
2020-2025: Building design & construction (complete)
Mid-2025: Faculty & staff recruitment begins [Current Phase]
Mid-2026: Clinic operational & grand opening
Late 2026: Student clinical rotations begin
What is team-based care? Team-based care involves health professionals from multiple disciplines working collaboratively to provide patient and relationship centered care. Patients benefit from the combined expertise of the full team.
What is longitudinal care? Longitudinal primary care refers to an ongoing, continuous relationship between a patient and their primary care team over time, across multiple health needs and life stages. Care is coordinated, proactive, and relationship based, with the same providers or team following the patient to support prevention, chronic disease management, acute issues, and health system navigation.
How does the Team-Based Care Teaching Clinic at Gateway support the BC Ministry of Health's strategy? The teaching clinic is funded by the BC Ministry of Health as a provincial resource for developing, testing, and scaling team-based care and education models. What works here informs primary care transformation across BC.
What's the difference between Centre for Innovation in Collaborative Health Education and Team-Based Care and the Team-Based Care Teaching Clinic at Gateway? Team-Based Care Teaching Clinic at Gatewayis the purpose-built teaching clinic opening in 2026. The Centre for Innovation in Collaborative Health Education and Team-Based Care is the Category 1 Research Centre within which the clinic is situated—a provincial hub connecting teaching clinics, researchers, and partners across BC.
Questions? Contact Julie Tipping, Team-Based Care Teaching Clinic at Gateway Program Director: julie.tipping@ubc.ca