Director of AIHD and Executive Director of AUN-HPN joined Implementing High-Quality Primary Care Webinar Series: The Future Workforce, held by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) (Health and Medicine)
Director of AIHD and Executive Director of AUN-HPN joined Implementing High-Quality Primary Care Webinar Series: The Future Workforce, held by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) (Health and Medicine)
15 June 2021
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Phudit Tejativaddhana, MD, Director of the ASEAN Institute for Health Development and Executive Director of ASEAN University Network for Health Promotion Network (AUN-HPN) joined Implementing High-Quality Primary Care Webinar Series: The Future Workforce, held by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) (Health and Medicine) on June 15th, at 10 PM Thailand time.
The webinar examined the committee’s third objective to achieve high-quality primary care in the United States: train primary care teams where people live and work. The committee members of the report join the panel of primary care training and workforce experts to discuss the report’s recommended actions on the topic, the barriers they may face, and potential facilitators to make them a reality
The panelists included:
Linda McCauley (Committee Co-Chair), Dean and Professor, Neil Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
Tumaini Coker (Committee member), Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine
Brenda Reiss-Brennan (Committee member), Director, Mental Health Integration, Intermountain Healthcare
Mary Roth McClurg (Committee member), Executive Vice Dean, Chief Academic Officer, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Candice Chen, Associate Professor, the Milken Institute School of Public Health, the George Washington University
Carolyn Clancy, Acting Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Deborah Trautman, President and CEO, American Association of Colleges of Nursing
The panel showed the update definition of Primary Care (PC) as “high quality primary care is the provision of whole-person, integrated, accessible, and equitable health care by interprofessional teams that are accountable for addressing the majority of an individual’s health and wellness needs across settings and through sustained relationships with patients, families, and communities”. Five objectives for achieving high quality PC were also mentioned: payment, access, workforce, digital health and accountability.
The panel discussed about interprofessional PC team, training and development of future PC team, the role of medical and nursing schools in recruitment, interprofessional education and training and supporting the retention of PC in underserved areas, payment model, engagement of patients, families and communities.
Reported by: Dr. Thi Hue Vo Man
