Canadian Family Physician

The Big Ideas Soapbox at Family Medicine Forum (FMF) showcases concepts that could make a difference to clinical practice, faculty development, postgraduate or undergraduate education, patient care and outcomes, or health policy. This session offers a platform for innovators to share fresh ideas, innovative thinking, and fledgling developments with the potential to initiate change. Proposals are selected for presentation at FMF based on reviewers’ scores, and the innovators are invited to the Big Ideas Soapbox session to present and defend their ideas.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are transforming clinical practice. There is a need for tailored education for end users and a need for more primary care stakeholder engagement during development and testing of AI-driven tools. An in-depth or technical understanding of AI is not required for clinicians to be able to make meaningful contributions to AI-related initiatives; however, most existing AI education resources focus on methods or are not specific to primary care.

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• In Ontario, different models of primary care service delivery coexist. The organization and remuneration of primary care services might influence many aspects of quality of care and provider behaviour. Therefore, it is important to evaluate these models in order to better understand their performance and function.

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Objective: To determine which of 4 organizational models of primary care in Ontario were more community oriented.

Design: Cross-sectional investigation using practice and provider surveys derived from the Primary Care Assessment Tool, with nested qualitative case studies (2 practices per model).

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