This year-long rotation will pair the fellow with a faculty member with implementation experience to support the implementation of collaborative care in a community primary care practice. Together they will spend the first part of the rotation preparing the practice for implementation of collaborative care. The fellow will then provide a combination of collaborative care psychiatric consultation and telepsychiatry to the clinic once care is launched. A focus on supporting the practice change necessary to achieve integration of collaborative care through the sustainability phase will be the focus of the last part of the year.
Learning Objectives
- Be able to define the key components of a collaborative care program
- Understand the evidence-based literature about integrated mental health programs and promote them to primary care leadership
- Describe the different roles and providers in a collaborative care program and the ways they support clients
- Be familiar with collaborative care implementation and developing a workflow (including triaging patients to appropriate level of care)
- Demonstrate active participation in and provision of psychiatric consultation and telepsychiatry in a collaborative care team
- Be able to work effectively with a care manager including being able to identifying skill set, knowledge, and attitudes of individual care managers and tailoring consultation hour consultation to their abilities
- Be aware of strategies to effectively communicate with primary care providers
Requirements
- Participate in all implementation activities
- Travel to implementation site as needed
- Provide weekly psychiatric consultation
- Provide telepsychiatric consultation as needed