PRP082: Essential Integrated Care Skills for Medical Providers
Matthew Martin, PhD; Lesley Manson, PsyD; Lisa Tshuma, DBH, MPAS, MPA, PA-C; Cory Lutgen, BS, BSc; Ann Wade
Abstract
Context
Workforce development is an essential part of preparing medical providers to deliver primary care with integrated behavioral health services. However, there is no consensus on the skills medical providers need to work with an integrated care team. Moreover, there is no reliable instrument for measuring a medical provider’s readiness to practice integrated care.
Objective
To examine essential skills and a novel readiness measure for medical providers working in primary care with behavioral health integration
Study Design
Delphi survey
Setting or Dataset
Primary care research network
Population studied
Primary care physicians and advanced practice providers
Intervention/Instrument (for interventional studies)
N/A
Results
We will report on survey responses from 50 participants. Results will include a list of skills considered by at least 80% of participants to be “essential” for medical providers working in primary care with behavioral health integration. In addition, we will report confirmatory factor analysis results from the readiness measure.
Conclusions
We will discuss implications on workforce development in primary care, including workplace orientation and training strategies and online learning. We will also explore directions for future research in advancing the science of workforce development.
Workforce development is an essential part of preparing medical providers to deliver primary care with integrated behavioral health services. However, there is no consensus on the skills medical providers need to work with an integrated care team. Moreover, there is no reliable instrument for measuring a medical provider’s readiness to practice integrated care.
Objective
To examine essential skills and a novel readiness measure for medical providers working in primary care with behavioral health integration
Study Design
Delphi survey
Setting or Dataset
Primary care research network
Population studied
Primary care physicians and advanced practice providers
Intervention/Instrument (for interventional studies)
N/A
Results
We will report on survey responses from 50 participants. Results will include a list of skills considered by at least 80% of participants to be “essential” for medical providers working in primary care with behavioral health integration. In addition, we will report confirmatory factor analysis results from the readiness measure.
Conclusions
We will discuss implications on workforce development in primary care, including workplace orientation and training strategies and online learning. We will also explore directions for future research in advancing the science of workforce development.
Cara
cara.brown@umanitoba.ca 11/22/2020Thanks for your poster. Would you please provide me a reference for Integrated Behavioral Care so that I can understand how you are using this term?