Family Medicine Residency Network
Annual Collaborative Care Conference

November 13-14, 2009

Agenda, Session Objectives, Travel and Hotel Arrangements

Center for Urban Horticulture
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Preregister below by September 28, 2009

Collaborative Care conferences are an opportunity for faculty to learn about new content areas and clinical practice interventions while, at the same time, sharing strategies for how to teach them to residents.

This year we are excited to welcome a team of two family physicians, a psychiatrist and a social worker who are nationally recognized behavioral science faculty from Michigan State. They will present a practical skills workshop on the management of patients with psychiatric illness in a family medicine residency clinic from a primary care collaborative team perspective. We will review clinical cases, discuss management strategies and practice using models for care as well as giving educational feedback to each other. Participants will gain clinical and teaching skills in this critically important and often quite challenging area of clinical care. This course will teach faculty how to manage and teach management of patients with psychiatric illness using an integrated approach that combines behavioral science and psychiatric techniques. We will promote communication between physicians and other mental health providers to develop collaborative approaches to patient care and education. And finally, we will integrate techniques for management of the doctor-patient interaction in this setting.