MDFT 6632: Collaboration & Practice Roles in Integrated Care (2023-2024)

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Spring 2024

Reviews  the core concepts needed for medical family therapists to collaborate successfully with providers and interdisciplinary care teams. Topics covered will include levels of medical care, warm handoffs, continuity of care, referrals, and types/roles of other providers. The varied roles of the medical family therapist in primary care and specialty care will be reviewed. Students will practice teaching each other about the MedFT's role on a healthcare team. (Formerly called: Collaboration Between Therapists and Physicians - The Basics.) Graduate students outside MFT and MDFT, and CE professionals, may register with permission of the Medical Family Therapy program director or class instructor. Typically offered: Spring.