Below are some of our past projects. These projects and tools are no longer being developed or updated but many may be useful in their current form.
Supporting BC Primary Care System
Team-Based Care Advisory
The ISU worked alongside a number of organizations as part of the Team-Based Care (TBC) Advisory Group, from 2016-2024. We helped to facilitate the scoping and prioritization of the TBC Advisory Group work and develop a clear and effective governance structure. This also included a number of learning cycles in support of TBC Advisory objectives including an environmental scan of resources to support the implementation of TBC in BC, a conceptual design for a first version of a Primary Care Learning Needs Learning System and a TBC Getting Started Toolkit and draft work-plan.
Capacity and Access Measures in Primary Care (CAMP)
There were two projects in CAMP, led by Dr. Rita McCracken as part of her work as an academic and ISU Scholar.
Provincial Map: CAMP used a combination of publicly available and administrative data, as well as short survey instruments, that provide the key elements for an accurate description of how primary care is currently organized
CAMP clinic survey: A short clinic survey to help better understand local capacity and access measures.
Enhancing Adaptive Capacity in the Primary Care System
This was a series of Learning Cycles and projects from Fall 2021 – Fall 2022 to better understand resilience in healthcare, motivated by seeing the increasing pressures facing both the primary care system and individual healthcare providers. We also completed a project on how to support and enhance adaptive capacity in primary care teams.
Primary Care Education Related Projects
Primary Care Teams Learning Centre Models
We completed a learning cycle to better understand the possible models for PCN-based collaborative learning centres. The results of this work supported a network of learning centres with opportunities for both local and regional primary care learning and teaching. This project informed the development of the Department of Family Practice Team-based Primary Care Learning Centres (TPCLC).
Team Teaching & Preceptor Support Mapping
With investment from the UBC Strategic Investment Fund we explored Team Mapping and preceptor resilience, in the context of Team-based Primary Care Learning Centres.
COVID-Related Projects
When the pandemic was declared we quickly started a learning cycle to begin to understand the needs of BC primary care providers at the start of the pandemic. The evidence from this learning cycle was used to guide the start of a number of projects, including:
COVID-19 Immunization Preparedness: Primary Care Clinic Toolkit
The COVID Immunization Preparedness Primary Care Clinic Toolkit helps primary care clinics and providers support patients to make decisions about getting vaccinated. This website had over 40,000 page views during the pandemic.
Virtual Primary Care Guide for Registered Nurses
This guide is designed to help Registered Nurses work with primary care teams to provide virtual care to patients. It was developed as part of the overall response during the pandemic and is still relevant today.
immPACC
During COVID, and supported by the Public Health Agency of Canada, immPACC used our Primary and Community Care Mapping methodology to support BC communities ensure equitable access to immunizations.
Palliative Care In the Pandemic Learning Cycle
This Learning Cycle helped generate greater understanding about how the pandemic had impacted the care of adults with palliative care needs in British Columbia (BC) and how community primary care and palliative care services could be enhanced to better support patients.
Primary Care in a Pandemic Podcast
From April 2020 – January 2021, we hosted the Primary Care in a Pandemic Podcast, looking at primary care changes in British Columbia during the COVID-19 pandemic and showcasing some of the ways primary care clinics adapted during this crisis.