Leader

  • Integrate community resources to support continuity of patient care including other health professionals, community agencies and groups either within the community or on referral out of the community.
  • Work collaboratively with public health officials, community leaders, alternative health providers, and educators in the promotion of public and preventative health.
  • Identify and manage potential hazards of hospital/institutional care (e.g. delirium, falls, immobility, pressure ulcers, incontinence, indwelling catheters, adverse drug events, malnutrition).
  • Provide cost effective medical care in decisions regarding hospitalization, test utilization and billing, balancing effectiveness, efficiency and access with optimal patient care.
  • Accurately assess local resource limitations and appropriately communicate with specialists at a tertiary care centre and with patient’s families regarding the transfer process if necessary.
  • Justify priority setting in the context of communities with limited resources.
  • Advise on the management and use of scarce resources, based on international evidence.
  • Describe the role the physician in the prioritization, management and utilization of health care facility resources.
  • Set priorities and manage time to balance patient care, practice requirements, outside activities and personal life to ensure personal health and a sustainable practice.
  • Integrate electronic tools into daily practice.
  • Describe family practice role in community disasters and mass-casualty incidents.
  • Evaluate and improve one’s clinical knowledge and practices, by developing expertise in practice-based clinical practice audit.
  • Describe the opportunity for family physician involvement in the business and fiscal management in health care setting.
  • Work collaboratively with MOA, clinic manager and others in a clinic setting in a way that optimizes clinic effectiveness.
  • Describe the process of patient transfer network communication and patient transfer logistics.