Physician engagement is a cornerstone of SSC’s work - we need physicians participating, seeking leadership training and opportunities, and providing their knowledge and experience for us to succeed.
For ease of access and understanding, we have divided our work into three areas, each covering several initiatives as follows:
Develop physician capability
Helping specialist physicians develop leadership and quality improvement skills to effectively lead and champion change.
We do this through our following initiatives:
Physician Quality Improvement provides quality improvement training to physicians and supports their Learning Action Projects.
Physician Leadership Scholarship empowers physicians by providing them with leadership training of their choosing as approved by the SSC.
UBC Sauder Physician Leadership Program empowers physicians by providing them with accredited leadership training by the University of British Columbia.
Engage physicians and partners
Strengthening relationships between physicians, health authorities and partners, so that collaboratively we can address health system challenges and support quality patient care.
We do this through our following initiatives:
Facility Engagement funds and supports facility-based Medical Staff Associations (MSAs) to increase engagement among members and with their health authority, to improve care delivery.
Improving specialist job satisfaction works to address physician burnout and improve provider experience of care delivery.
Supporting community based specialists explores how community specialists can be better integrated.
Transform care delivery
Improving key patient care and health system priorities as delivered by specialist physicians.
We do this through our following initiatives:
Quality and innovation projects enables individual and team projects by specialists across the province to address system and patient health challenges.
Enhancing Access Initiative improves patient access to consult and care by enabling specialist groups to implement a pooled referral model of service delivery.
Surgical Patient Optimization Collaborative (SPOC) works to optimize patient health before major surgery for improved surgical outcomes.
SSC fees compensates specialists to provide coordinated and timely care to patients and to consult other clinicians on complex cases.
Spreading Quality Improvement fosters collaborative relationships that result in the spread of quality improvement work funded by SSC.
Health System Redesign funds specialists and health authorities to collaborate on system change projects.
