Strengthening collaboration for interprofessional primary care teams: Insights and key learnings from six disciplinary perspectives

We provide a case example of the collaborative process required to plan and implement initiatives to enhance team-based primary care, drawing on experiences of six disciplines working together to create new curricula as part of Team Primary Care. Recommendations to strengthen collaboration from our team include building capacity requires an understanding of unique disciplinary roles and understanding of unique elements of primary care; competencies have to be specifically articulated and demonstrated within a primary care context; interprofessional education within and across disciplines is needed; establishing primary care competencies would provide a common set of skills, knowledge, values, and attitudes to form a foundation in which to build the capacity of the interprofessional primary care workforce; and interprofessional collaboration is needed in implementing team-based primary care in practice and in preparing an interprofessional workforce prepared to leverage the expertise of the entire team.

• Publication year

  2024

• Venue

  Healthcare Management Forum

• Publication date

  2024-08-28

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Education

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1177/08404704241266763PMID 39194277
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Tough times at the top: Occupational status predicts changes in job satisfaction in times of crisis

  2022cited by this paper
• A case study unpacking the collaborative research process: Eight essential components

  2022cited by this paper
• Interprofessional primary care during COVID-19: a survey of the provider perspective

  2021cited by this paper
• Examining the extent and factors associated with interprofessional teamwork in primary care settings

  2021cited by this paper
• Developing interprofessional collaborative practice competencies in rural primary health care teams.

  2020cited by this paper
• Team Mapping: A Novel Method to Help Community Primary Healthcare Practices Transition to Team-Based Care.

  2020cited by this paper
• Allied health professionals’ perceptions of interprofessional collaboration in primary health care: an integrative review

  2020influential reference
• Collaborative Care in Primary Care: The Influence of Practice Interior Architecture on Informal Face-to-Face Communication—An Observational Study

  2020cited by this paper
• Interprofessional education: tips for design and implementation

  2020influential reference
• Case Study Methodology of Qualitative Research: Key Attributes and Navigating the Conundrums in Its Application

  2020cited by this paper
• Intentional or Not: Teamwork Learning at Primary Care Clinics

  2019cited by this paper
• Measuring the performance of interprofessional primary health care teams: understanding the teams perspective

  2019cited by this paper
• Inter-professional education and primary care: EFPC position paper

  2019influential reference
• Interprofessional education and collaboration among healthcare students and professionals: a systematic review and call for action

  2019cited by this paper
• Learning to collaborate while collaborating: advancing interdisciplinary sustainability research

  2019cited by this paper
• Working on working together. A systematic review on how healthcare professionals contribute to interprofessional collaboration

  2019cited by this paper
• The impact of team-based primary care on health care services utilization and costs: Quebec's family medicine groups.

  2017cited by this paper
• Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods

  2017cited by this paper
• Challenges Faced by Social Workers as Members of Interprofessional Collaborative Health Care Teams.

  2016influential reference
• Strengthening a competent health workforce for the provision of coordinated/ integrated health services

  2016cited by this paper
• ‘Gearing Up’ to improve interprofessional collaboration in primary care: a systematic review and conceptual framework

  2016cited by this paper
• Observation of interprofessional collaboration in primary care practice: A multiple case study

  2016cited by this paper
• Building teams in primary care: A practical guide.

  2015cited by this paper
• Developing patient-centered teams: The role of sharing stories about patients and patient care.

  2015cited by this paper
• Understanding context in healthcare research and development

  2014cited by this paper
• Interprofessional Collaboration in Ontario’s Family Health Teams: A Review of the Literature

  2014cited by this paper
• Ontario's primary care reforms have transformed the local care landscape, but a plan is needed for ongoing improvement.

  2013cited by this paper
• Improving interprofessional collaboration in primary care: position paper of the European Forum for Primary Care.

  2012cited by this paper
• Enrolment in primary care networks: impact on outcomes and processes of care for patients with diabetes

  2012cited by this paper
• Interprofessional Teamwork for Health and Social Care: Reeves/Interprofessional Teamwork for Health and Social Care

  2010cited by this paper
• Interprofessional Teamwork for Health and Social Care

  2010cited by this paper
• Framework for action on interprofessional education and collaborative practice

  2010cited by this paper
• Do primary care professionals work as a team: A qualitative study

  2005influential reference

• The impact of remuneration, extrinsic and intrinsic incentives on interprofessional primary care teams: results from a rapid scoping review

  2025cites this paper
• Shared practices among primary health care workers: A time-motion study

  2025cites this paper
• Perceptions and Practices of Interdisciplinary Action in an Intra-Hospital Support Team for Palliative Care: A Qualitative Study

  2025influential citation
• Development and contextual analysis of a person-centered professional practice model in a home care service in French-speaking Switzerland

  2025cites this paper
• Understanding the experience of clinicians and non-clinical staff in Integrated Virtual Care, a hybrid primary care program in rural Ontario, Canada: a qualitative study

  2025cites this paper
• Evaluating the impact of an interprofessional education intervention on health profession students’ perceptions and collaborative competencies in Lebanon: a quasi-experimental study

  2025cites this paper
• Spanish translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the Person-Centred Practice Inventory-Student (PCPI-ST): A tool for advancing person-centred care education.

  2025cites this paper
• A Survey of Primary Care Administrators' Experiences During Integration of Pharmacists Into Team-Based Primary Care in British Columbia.

  2025cites this paper
• Core shared competencies between physicians and nurses in primary care: a Delphi study in Korea

  2025cites this paper