Peer facilitators

MSPE is a quality improvement program for medical staff in BC health authorities. The program supports medical staff to understand and enhance their individual practice, as part of their ongoing commitment to providing respectful, safe, high-quality patient care.

MSPE is not linked to privilege or license processes. 

MSPE is a new collaborative initiative of all the province's health authorities. It is being developed and introduced in phases. Eventually, MSPE will engage all health authority medical staff (physicians, nurse practitioners, midwives and dentists) in a regular cycle of facilitated feedback, self-reflection, and professional planning.

See the Medical Staff Practice Enhancement Info Sheet.

Peer facilitators are essential to the MSPE program. As a peer facilitator, you will guide practitioners though three key activities:

• interpreting a 360⁰ feedback report
• developing an action plan, and 
• noting progress in a post-plan discussion.

See also, the Practitioner Steps in a 360.

Are you interested in medical quality or leadership? Knowledgeable about quality improvement? If you have these attributes - and enthusiasm to support your peers - you may be a good fit for the peer facilitator role. Experience with a 360⁰ assessment is also of value.

Initial peer facilitator opportunities are for primarily for physicians with emergency medicine experience and a current license to practice.

Yes. As a peer facilitator, you will engage in 6-7 hours of training to establish a consistent approach to interpreting the 360⁰ reports and to accelerate your facilitation skills. You will also join learning exchanges with other facilitators, to refine the program as it grows. 

Peer facilitator compensation is at sessional rates for training and for 1:1 meetings.

The MSPE program spans over a five-month intake cycle. In their first intake peer facilitators participate in training (7 hours). In each intake, peer facilitators provide guidance to 2-4 practitioners (3 hours per practitioner). 

The pace of training and 1:1 facilitation meetings is calibrated to deliver just-in-time learning for both peer facilitators and practitioners.

 All learning and 1:1 facilitation will occur by Zoom, so no travel is required.

Contact mspe@bcmqi.ca to follow up on peer facilitator opportunities.