Development and Implementation of an Integrated Care Fellowship

Autor: Anna D.H. Ratzliff, Ramanpreet Toor, Jennifer M. Erickson, Amy M. Bauer, Mark H. Duncan, Denise Chang, Lydia Chwastiak, Patrick J. Raue, Jurgen Unutzer
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. 63:280-289
ISSN: 2667-2960
Popis: Integrated care is a common approach to leverage scarce psychiatric resources to deliver mental health care in primary care settings.Describe a formal clinical fellowship devoted to professional development for the integrated care psychiatrist role.The development of a formal year-long clinical fellowship in integrated care is described. The curriculum consists of an Integrated Care Didactic Series, Integrated Care Clinical Skill Experiences, and Integrated Care System-Based Leadership Experiences. Evaluation of impact was assessed with descriptive statistics.We successfully recruited 3 classes of fellows to the Integrated Care Fellowship, with 5 program graduates in the first 3 years. All 5 graduated fellows were hired into integrated care and/or telepsychiatry positions. Integrated Care fellows had a high participation rate in didactics (mean attendance = 80.6%; n = 5). We received a total of 582 didactic evaluations for the 151 didactic sessions. On a scale of 1 (poor) to 6 (fantastic), the mean quality of the interactive learning experience was rated as 5.33 (n = 581) and the mean quality of the talk was 5.35 (n = 582). Rotations were rated with the mean overall teaching quality of 4.98/5 (n = 76 evaluations from 5 fellows).The Integrated Care clinical fellowship serves as a model for training programs seeking to provide training in clinical and systems-based skills needed for practicing integrated care. Whether such training is undertaken as a standalone fellowship or incorporated into existing consultation-liaison psychiatry programs, such skills are increasingly valuable as integrated care becomes commonplace in practice.
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