Primary care is in crisis. To help combat this trend, Dr. Emmett Harrison will discuss the power of quality improvement and share his lessons learned from the frontline as a family and emergency medicine physician in Swift Current.

You will gain insight into his recent continuous quality improvement endeavours, including a Pharmacy Care Pilot and Patient’s Medical Home Pilot, both of which involve the colocation of nursing at the Associate Family Physicians Clinic and using a collaborative care model with a local pharmacy to assist in their expanded scope of practice.

Dr. Harrison will also discuss the importance of creating a “quality improvement learning milieu”, reflecting on his roles as a local residency scholarly improvement project lead, and mentor with the Health Quality Council Quality Improvement (QI) in Clinics program.