When I practiced in North Carolina, we did group medical visits every three months. We had 12-15 people per group. The visit would usually last two hours. In the first 45 minutes, we would have a group session where we would do a skills activity and disseminate educational material. We would also have a group discussion around that session's topic. The clients would then be taken back individually for their medical visit with their physician. It was a nice dynamic between the areas of information delivery, skills lab, group discussion and individual medical treatment. This is a nice way to manage many people if you have limited space or resources. If you want to find out more information, I would look into the group medical visits literature.
Heather Ann Fritz, PhD, OTR/L
Heather Fritz, OTR/L, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral research fellow at Wayne State University’s Institute of Gerontology. Heather’s clinical expertise is in chronic illness in adults and older adults. Her research and teaching focuses on the challenges of chronic illness self-management and health promotion in low income and minority adult populations. In particular, Heather's primary research area is health behavior change and the development of illness self-management skills.
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