2012 CFHA Research Fellow |
Caitlin Burditt, PhD
Undergraduate Institution & Degree: Other Graduate Education: Hometown: Tell us about yourself:
1. Describe your research project and why you are interested in studying more about this area? In line with the mission of CFHA, the UMASS Worcester Department of Family Medicine has developed collaborative, multidisciplinary, healthcare teams by integrating behavioral health services into family medicine residency training. One of the novel integrated primary care methods employed is the dual interview (Blount, DeGirolamo, Mariani, 2006). In its simplest form, a dual interview is a patient visit where both the medical and behavioral health provider are present, and each add value to the patient encounter. The dual interview was designed with a number of objectives in mind, primarily as an experiential teaching tool for family medicine residents. The experience provides an opportunity for residents to practice team-based care, and to become more adept at recognizing and addressing behavioral health needs within daily medical practice. Each family medicine resident is required to do at least 33 dual interviews throughout the course of their residency; 11 of these must be working with patients to address health behavior change (e.g., smoking cessation, medication compliance, exercise). Despite many years of successful implementation of this method of training and feedback from residents about dual interviews being helpful for patient care, the specific instructional elements of dual interviews have not been systematically examined. Programmatically, if we are to continue to require dual interviews and utilize them as a core teaching tool, it would be beneficial to have a more in depth understanding of the instructional elements and the resident experience of the dual interview. From a dissemination perspective, additional evidence about the effective training elements of dual interviews is essential. Therefore, the primary aims of this project are: (1) to gain a better understanding of the residents, BH fellows, and faculty perspective on their perceived value and learning outcomes of the dual interview experience; and (2) assess to what extent dual interviews directly target the ACGME competency requirements for family medicine residency. The ultimate goal of this endeavor is to further refine the learning objectives for the dual interview from both the behavioral health and medical perspective and disseminate this information. As a behavioral health fellow working daily in a family medicine residency training practice and participating in these dual interviews at least on a weekly basis, I feel that conducting this research project will not only be helpful to to the residency training program but also in my daily practice. 2. Who is your project mentor? 3. What is the best & worst thing about working with your mentor? 4. What attracted you to the field of collaborative care? 5. What are your future plans? 6. In all of the field, who is the person you look up to the most and why?
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4/23/2018
Pediatrics SIG Meeting
5/4/2018
Families and Health SIG Meeting
10/18/2018 » 10/20/2018
2018 CFHA Annual Conference