Building Interdisciplinary Teams

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Building Interdisciplinary Teams

• Andrew McWilliams
• March 10, 2005

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Mobile SHAC
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• The nations oldest student run clinic
• Started in 1967
• Acute care clinic every Wednesday night
• Provides - exams,labs,medications, therapy and
  counseling

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Mobile SHACA Division of SHAC

• Reach out to elders who have limited access to
  the healthcare system
• Improve their lives by whatever means possible

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Working Together
we can achieve more...
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Interdisciplinary Teams

• Students from the Schools of PT, OT, Nursing,
  Medicine, Social Work, and Pharmacy
• Teams of 4 to 6 students
• Assigned one patient to visit for the whole year

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Mobile SHAC has taught me a lot more about
working with other disciplines You need the team
a lot more than I ever wouldve guessed.

• Learn about other disciplines
• Extinguish professional stereotypes
• Learn how collaboration and collective
  knowledge can help improve a patients quality of
  life

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Outside the Walls of a Clinic

• See the joys and complexities of a patients
  life
• Much, much more than seen through the window of a
  10 minute office visit

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04-05 Accomplishments

• Serving 17 patients
• 90 plus volunteers
• 7 Coordinators representing all the disciplines
• Monthly meetings between teams and faculty
  members to discuss patients

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What the Teams Are Doing

• Take patients out to dinner
• Help understand and better follow a diabetic diet
• Purchase of automatic BP cuff and diabetes
  equipment
• Help arrange for adult daycare
• Education about healthcare concerns

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And Doing

• Socializing
• Christmas dinner
• Making homes safer
• Gardening
• Monitoring BP, glucose, and medications

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Mrs. C Team 17
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Making a difference

• Identified risk factors in the home
• Made a plan
• Collaborated with community partners
• Secured funding to make repairs

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Mission (being) Accomplished

• Replacing a broken front door
• Building a new and safer deck
• New stairs and a railing on the front porch
• A shower chair
• Shower railings
• Roof repairs

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Whats next for MSHAC?

• Become a better resource for physicians in the
  community
• Raise money to fund home improvement and home
  safety projects
• Continue to foster relationships between patients
  and their teams
• Improve the lives of those who need it the most

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Acknowledgments

• Mobile SHAC volunteers and patients
• Cherie Rosemond MS PT GCS - Faculty Advisor
• UNCs Program on Aging and support from the
  Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
• UNCs Education for Lifelong Services