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The Project will build on initial advice emerging from several successful provincial summits /workshops organized by the AMS in early 2011 on the use of narrative, the role of the hidden curriculum, and the effects of toxic practice environments on medical and nursing education. The key findings emerging from these summits constituted Phase 1 of the project and provided a foundation for discussions leading to the launch of The AMS Phoenix Project.
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 Roles & Responsibilities of the AMS Phoenix Project Management Committee |
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The AMS Phoenix Project Management Committee is responsible for advancing the goals of the AMS Phoenix Project through oversight and direction of Project activities to enable and support the creation of sustainable and ongoing education and workplace practice changes to support a renewed interest in advancing person-focused care and the importance of compassionate healthcare as set-out in the Project Work plan.
The AMS Phoenix Project Management Committee will:
- Provide advice and direction to the Project Lead on strategies, broad directions, policy and practice implications, and other issues relevant to the Project.
- Establish working subgroups, as needed, to support the Project.
- Adjudicate competitions sponsored by the Project and make recommendations for funding to the AMS Board.
- Develop an implementation and evaluation plan for the Project and monitor their progress.
- Account to the Board, through the Project Lead, and to the wider community for the execution of the Project.
- Consult, as needed, with external experts to meet any of the functions of the Project Management Committee.
The Committee reports to the AMS Board through its Chair, Dr. Brian Hodges, Project Lead.
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Focus on Person-focused Care |
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The AMS Phoenix Project: A Calling to Caring will frame its work embracing the following definition of person‐centred care:
| Person centred care is defined as high quality healthcare that respects an individual’s preferences, needs and values, and is provided in an empathetic and compassionate way. |
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Initial Work and Priorities |
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In 2012-13 the AMS Phoenix Project will focus on advancing the first goal of the Project:
To identify and support champions for caring relationships, through the
development of contemporary and future healthcare professionals, who
will model compassionate care in their everyday work.
AMS Phoenix Project
Goals
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Goal 1:
To identify and support champions for caring relationships, through the development of contemporary and future healthcare professionals, who will model compassionate care in their everyday work. |
Influence the way health professional students and trainees are taught to ensure that they develop the attitudes, skills and tools they need to rebalance human compassion and technical expertise. |
Build on current best education practices to develop and/or shape curricula for person-centred care that are sensitive to the needs of each professional group.
Begin incorporating these programs into the undergraduate medicine and nursing education programs in Ontario. |
Goal 2:
To promote creative strategies for caring in both education and clinical practice to be developed, investigated and shared with the wider community. |
Continue to develop in health professional educators a fulsome understanding and recognition of the importance of teaching and modeling person-centred care. |
Develop teams of experts and leaders in faculty development to work with all faculty members to develop person-centred care attitudes, skills and tools. |
| Construct standard tools for health professional practice leaders that can be used to craft practice environments that support person-centred care. |
Develop ways to assist partners to create and sustain working environments in which person-centred skills are modeled, supported and encouraged as routine practice. |
Goal 3:
To cultivate communities of practice, both face-to-face and virtual, building on existing groups and developing new networks in order to advance compassionate healthcare. |
Create structures dedicated to promoting person-centred care and addressing structural barriers to implementing person‐centred care in education and the practice environments. |
Create and support an interdisciplinary community of leaders who actively champion and implement person-centred care across Ontario. |
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