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The University of British Columbia has opened the Gateway Team-Based Care Teaching Clinic, the first of its kind in British Columbia, providing primary care for up to 4,450 patients while training health-care students.
The University of British Columbia has opened a new team-based health clinic on its campus. The Gateway Team-Based Care Teaching Clinic is now accepting patients and can provide primary care for up to 4,450 people.
UBC said the clinic is the first of its kind in British Columbia. It is located inside the newly named MacIsaac Health Building. The clinic brings together licensed health professionals and serves as a training site for UBC students from a range of health disciplines. Patients will receive care from family doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dietitians, social workers and other health professionals.
Innovative Clinic Model Trains Students and Treats Patients
Students will work alongside these professionals, gaining supervised experience while treating patients with health concerns that may require care from more than one discipline. The MacIsaac Health Building is a 270,550-square-foot facility that also houses several UBC health-related schools and programs. The building is named after the MacIsaac family, who donated $40 million to UBC. The university said the gift will support health education, research and clinical training.
UBC President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Benoit-Antoine Bacon said in a news release Friday that the university is deeply grateful to the MacIsaac family for their visionary, transformational gift to UBC and to the future of health-care in B.C. He said the MacIsaac Health Building reflects UBC's vision for the future of health education, research and care-one in which people across disciplines learn from one another, advance knowledge and put it into practice to improve health in communities.
Dr. Julie Tipping, the clinic's program director and an assistant professor of teaching in the MacIsaac School of Nursing, said the model gives students experience working as part of a team in a real clinical setting. She said many patients live with complex conditions that extend far beyond any single discipline's scope.
Team-Based Care Improves Patient Outcomes and Learning
When students deliver care as a team in a real clinical setting, they quickly learn where their own scope ends, where a colleague's begins, and how much better care can be when those perspectives are combined. Physiotherapy student Max Szkarelat said the approach allows providers to work together rather than treating different health concerns separately. He said that when a patient tells the team what matters most to their health, the team determines the best person for them to see.
If medical concerns arise, the family doctor and nurse practitioner are there to address them. Seeing that collaboration gives students a model for how they can work together. The building will also be used for research, including simulation training with advanced medical mannequins that can mimic symptoms and respond to treatment.
UBC said provincial funding will support the clinic's staffing, operations and program development, as well as work to test models and education that could potentially be used in other clinical settings across the province. The clinic aims to address the need for primary care access while training the next generation of health professionals in team-based care. UBC said the Gateway Team-Based Care Teaching Clinic is now accepting patients.
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