Group Medical Visit Starter Kit

The attached starter kit (in attachments section on the right) is located on the Improving Chronic Illness Care website (improvingchroniccare.org) and was received from Collene Hawes of Group Health Cooperative, Kate Lorig of the Stanford Patient Education Research Center and John Scott of Kaiser-Colorado. Portions of this work first appeared in or are derived or adapted from the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program. Those portions are Copyrighted 1999 by Stanford Univ.  Other forms are from Julie Schirmer of the Family Medicine Department of Maine Medical Center (Challenging Group Participant Styles) and Ed Shahady, MD of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians (Practicing Physicians Curriculum Document).

Topics in the attached starter kit include:

1) What are group medical visits?

2) Why are they useful?

3) How to plan and implement group medical visits

4) Task list and timeline

5) Who does what?

6) Sample letter for patients

7) Sample agendas

8) Information on a "Patient Workbook" for participants

9) Group visit norms

10) Vital records for patients

11) Clinic information sheet

12) List of resources to help get you started

13) Sources for patient education materials

14) Tips on facilitating groups

15) References

To access the Group Visit Starter Kit on the Improving Chronic , click on address below.  http://improvingchroniccare.org/index.php?p=Toolkits,_Manuals_&_Critical_Tools&s=162