Seminar focuses on challenges to adopting team-based practice

WASHINGTON — The Affordable Care Act provisions that promote primary care are running headlong into a system straining under long-standing shortages and maldistribution of primary care professionals. Team-based practice—where physicians, nurse practitioners, and other members of the primary care team work collaboratively and to the full extent of their training—offers a path to expanding the capacity of the primary care workforce.

In this seminar, “Team-Based Practice—Is it the “Secret Sauce” of Effective Primary Care?” featured speaker Julie Sochalski, PhD, RN, Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and moderator Kathleen Klink, MD, medical director at the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, will describe the landscape of interprofessional primary care practice in the U.S. They will discuss the challenges that have interfered with adopting these models of practice more widely, contrast the experience in the U.S. with that of New Zealand where advanced practice nurses have more recently been integrated in primary care practice, and consider policy options and research and educational recommendations to advance team-based primary care.

WHAT:
Primary care seminar, “Team-Based Practice - Is it the “Secret Sauce” of Effective Primary Care?

WHO:
Julie Sochalski, PhD, RN, Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania

Kathleen Klink, MD, medical director at the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care

WHEN:
2–3 p.m. Eastern, Tuesday, June 30, 2015

WHERE:
The Robert Graham Center
1133 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20036

Register via email to KEpperson@aafp.org no later than Thursday, June 25.