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Tara Kiran

@tarakiran.bsky.social

Family doc @ Unity Health 🩺 | Assoc. Prof @ U of T DFCM 🎓 | Scientist @ MAP Centre 🔍 | Leading #OurCare to reimagine primary care | Host of Primary Focus 🎙️ | Always chasing better care, grounded in data + community 📊❤️

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Michelle Cohen@docmcohen.medsky.social · 9mo ago

Yesterday I posted the 1st of my 2 recent papers with @tarakiran.bsky.social on the #GenderPayGap in medicine. Today I'm thrilled to share the 2nd, done with Dr. Fahima Dossa. We wanted to see if #WomenInSurgery did different types of work than their male colleagues. 1/8 #Medsky #Surgsky🧵

Michelle Cohen@docmcohen.medsky.social · 9mo ago

Building on work that @tarakiran.bsky.social and I published 5 yrs ago, we're excited to announce the first of two new papers on the #GenderPayGap in Canadian medicine. This one is for @jama.com. Data shows "pink collaring" or devaluation. Incomes going down when women enter a specialty. #Medsky🧵

Tara Kiran@tarakiran.bsky.social · last yr.

🎙️ Great to be part of the latest ICES podcast to talk all things primary care I was joined by Sandy Epp, an #OurCare participant, who shares personal stories about her struggles & what gives her hope Listen to learn more about how we can build a better system: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

In Our VoICES

Science Podcast · Updated Monthly · In Our VoICES is an ICES podcast that takes you beyond the data to meet the people – and hear the stories – that help shape health and healthcare, for all of us.

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Tara Kiran@tarakiran.bsky.social · last yr.

🎙️ In the latest Primary Focus episode, we meet Kris Arts—a Dutch practice assistant and, in my view, the secret sauce of primary care. Practice assistants don’t just answer phones—they triage, counsel, vaccinate & more, applying their training in empathy and de-escalation. 🎧 www.primaryfocus.ca

Tara Kiran@tarakiran.bsky.social · last yr.

🎧 Just dropped: my first-ever audio documentary! I went to the Netherlands to learn how 99% of people get access to primary care—and how we might bring some of those lessons home to Canada 🇳🇱🇨🇦 Listen to Primary Focus wherever you get your podcasts www.primaryfocus.ca Here's a small taste ⬇️🎙️

Tara Kiran@tarakiran.bsky.social · last yr.

Loved this conversation on how communities can lead change in healthcare. We won’t get to equity without sharing power and listening deeply. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgg9...

Australian Health Journal@auhealthjournal.bsky.social · last yr.

Beyond engagement: consumers and communities as agents of health care change and improvement AUSTRALIAN PRIMARY HEALTHCARE INSIGHTS AND INNOVATION VODCAST SERIES. Highlights from Vodcast 3 youtu.be/UgHIzBrnSnI

Tara Kiran@tarakiran.bsky.social · last yr.

What if we designed primary care around Indigenous people — not just added them to a system built for someone else? In Episode 2 of Primary Focus, Dr. Mandy Buss shares a vision for care grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing and healing. 🎥👇 Listen to the full episode: www.primaryfocus.ca

Tara Kiran@tarakiran.bsky.social · last yr.

Imagine a world where there are generations of Indigenous doctors. Where Indigenous kids grow up seeing themselves in the people who care for them. We’re not there yet. Less than 1% of physicians in Canada are Indigenous — even though Indigenous people make up over 4.5% of the population.

Tara Kiran@tarakiran.bsky.social · last yr.

Too many people in Canada are struggling to get the care they need As a federal election approaches, it’s time to ask what parties are promising—and push for real answers Join this important conversation hosted by @theglobeandmail.com on Apr 15, 12:30–1:30pm ET globeandmailevents.com/election2025

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Tara Kiran@tarakiran.bsky.social · last yr.

27% of adults in BC don’t have a family doctor. Team-based care needs to be part of the solution. Love this piece by my colleagues Goldis Mitra, Thuy-Nga Pham and Ruth Lavergne on how we can move the dial on team-based primary care in BC. 🔗 bcmj.org/premise/movi...

Moving the dial on team-based care in British Columbia | British Columbia Medical Journal

We explore three overarching questions related to team-based primary care in BC: Why do we need teams, where do we go next, and how do we get there?

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Tara Kiran@tarakiran.bsky.social · last yr.

Family docs want to learn from data—but it’s hard to find time & space. At our FHT, peer to peer coaching helped. We trained 10 docs to offer 1:1 sessions to review data & reflect. It worked. Docs felt supported, connected & left with change ideas. Read more: www.jabfm.org/content/37/6...

Peer-Coaching for Family Physicians to Close the Intention-to-Action Gap

Introduction: Peer coaching has the potential to enhance the effectiveness of clinical performance feedback reports to family physicians, but few peer-coaching quality improvement programs have been implemented and evaluated in primary care. Authors designed, implemented and evaluated a peer-coaching program for family physicians in a large, academic primary-care organization to explore its potential to enhance family physicians' use of clinical performance data for quality improvement. Methods: Coaches were nominated by their peers and were trained to follow an evidence-informed facilitated feedback model for coaching. Data were collected through surveys, a focus-group with coaches, and individual interviews with coached family physicians (“coachees”). Data were analyzed inductively using reflexive thematic analysis. Results: Authors trained 10 coaches who coached 25 family physicians over 3 months. Coachees who completed the survey (21/25) indicated a desire for additional coaching sessions in future; most (19/21) reported confidence in making practice change. Interview (n = 11) and focus-group participants (n = 8) findings validated acceptability of the coaching approach that emphasized empathy ahead of change-talk. Coaches helped coachees interpret care-quality measures, deal with negative emotional responses evoked, encouraged a sense of accountability for improvement, and sometimes offered new ways to manage common challenges. Coaching sessions led to a wide range of practice-improvement goals. However, effects on practice change were felt to be limited by the data available and the focus on individual physician factors when broader clinic issues acted as important barriers to improvement. Conclusions: Peer coaching is a feasible approach to supporting family physicians’ use of data for learning and practice improvement. More research is needed to understand the impact on practice outcomes and physician wellness.

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Tara Kiran@tarakiran.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks to the Medical Post for publishing my 3-part series on what 🇨🇦 Canada can learn from 🇪🇸 Spain, a country where everyone has access to primary care. ✅ geographic-based centres ✅ team-based approach ✅ embedded in community ✅ patient-held records canadianhealthcarenetwork.ca/how-spain-ma...

How Spain manages 100% primary care access

Spanish family doctors have vacation, sick leave and a pension. Part one of a three-part series.

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