ArticleBMC primary care2025
Impact of a continuing medical education program on primary care providers - an analysis of a child psychiatry education program in Saskatchewan.
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- Scaling pediatric mental health care through primary care workforce training: a task-sharing and upskilling implementation strategy.Implementation science communications · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundTreating children and youth with mental health problems in the primary care setting is challenging for many reasons. One barrier to care is a lack of physician knowledge of child psychiatry. Saskatchewan has implemented a 6-month course developed by the non-profit REACH Institute and adapted to Canada (CanREACH), focused on teaching and implementing evidence-based child psychiatric diagnostic and treatment methods into primary care. Our study focused on determining this program's impact on primary care providers (PCPs) and patients.
methodsTo determine the impact of CanREACH, we assessed the knowledge and skills gained by PCPs and determined whether these were retained over time. To evaluate systemic impact, we examined if the pre-training and post-training referrals to an outpatient child psychiatry clinic were impacted for PCPs who had taken the course.
resultsPCPs developed significant skills and comfort in assessing, diagnosing and treating various mental illnesses and retained this knowledge over time. PCPs who had taken the course had a significant reduction in referrals (0.9 per PCP) made to child psychiatry, as compared to those who had not taken the course (1.3 per PCP) (p < 0.05). This long-term retention of skills provides reassurance about the effectiveness of the CanREACH program.
conclusionsEducation improved the capacity of primary care providers to manage child and adolescent psychiatry cases, reducing the need to refer children to psychiatry subspecialists. This ultimately improved access to outpatient child psychiatry care for Saskatchewan residents.
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