Team Primary Care (TPC)

Toolkit

Speech-language pathologists (S-LPs) and audiologists in primary health care support patients, families, and interprofessional partners by addressing speech, language, hearing, balance and swallowing disorders in a comprehensive and collaborative manner at all life stages. S-LPs and audiologists help ensure patients’ communication needs are addressed and accounted for as they navigate the health care system.

Comprehensive Interprofessional Primary Healthcare (CIPHC)

SAC, in collaboration with Western University, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, the National Centre for Audiology and a grant issued by the College of Family Physicians of Canada, Foundations for Advancing Family Medicine, and the Canadian Health Workforce Network, have developed course modules designed to educate and train professionals to work in Comprehensive Interprofessional Primary Healthcare (CIPHC) teams.

Audiologists
as Part of Team-Based Primary Care

The purpose of this online module is to introduce you to comprehensive interprofessional primary care (herein referred to as team-based primary care) and the valuable roles that audiologists fulfill as members of primary care teams.

Fostering Effective and Accessible Communication
in Team-Based Primary Care

The purpose of this online module is to provide you with the tools to foster accessible communication within primary care teams. You will learn how to optimize patient-provider and provider-provider communication to ensure primary care teams deliver collaborative, coordinated, and comprehensive care for patients and their families.

Speech-Language Pathologists
as Part of Team-Based Primary Care

The purpose of this online module is to introduce you to comprehensive interprofessional primary care (herein referred to as team-based primary care) and the valuable roles that speech-language pathologists fulfill as members of primary care teams.

Foundations of Team-Based Primary Care

"Successful Interprofessional Primary Health Care Teams (IHP) work in an integrated manner, complementing one another’s expertise and skills to achieve a shared vision and to ensure patient’s goals are met. In successful teams, each member acknowledges and respects the abilities of their colleagues and is willing to take on responsibilities to help or contribute to others’ roles," (Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario, 2023).

Public Resource Toolkit

Speech-Language Pathologists: Part of Your Primary Care Team
Audiologists: Part of Your Primary Care Team
Team-Based Primary Care: Modules

Resources for Members and Health Professionals

Building bridges: the integral presence of audiologists and speech-language pathologists in comprehensive interprofessional primary care teams.
An Online Learning Module on the Role of Audiologists in Team-Based Primary Care: A Quality Improvement Assessment
The roles of speech-language pathologists in primary healthcare teams: a scoping review
Introduction to the Health Workforce in Canada
TPC Call to Action
TPC Compendium
Building bridges: the integral presence of audiologists and speech-language pathologists in comprehensive interprofessional primary care teams
An Online Learning Module on the Role of Audiologists in Team-Based Primary Care: A Quality Improvement Assessment
Traditional Healing and Wellness
Curricula for Patients with Communication Disorders
A scoping review of the roles of audiologists and speech-language pathologists in primary healthcare teams
Caring for Healthcare –
A toolkit for psychological health and safety in healthcare workplaces
TPC Summit 2024 Video Replays
Steven Lewis: New Canadian medical schools will fail to solve issues