Core Competency #4: Teams and Systems-based Practice

Dr. Corey A. Keeton, MD

The input of professionals from multiple disciplines is often required to address the complex health needs of patients with disabilities in various health and community support systems. Learners better understand how to engage and collaborate with team members within and outside their own discipline to provide high quality, inter-professional team-based health care to people with disabilities.

Learning Objectives

After completing this training, attendees will:

• Recognize how the input of professionals from multiple disciplines is often required to address the complex health needs of patients with disabilities in various health and community support systems.
• Describe various models of team approaches when supporting people with disabilities in health care systems (e.g., interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, inter-professional).
• Explain the discipline-specific responsibilities of team members in addressing health needs of patients with disabilities and in partnering with the patient as a central member of the team.
• Discuss challenges in creating a person-centered or family-centered system of care and strategies to build an effective healthcare team.
• Demonstrate skills in teamwork including flexibility, adaptability, open communication, assertiveness, conflict management, referral, use of evidence-based practice to support decision-making and mutual goal setting with patients with disabilities and other team members.