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Welcome to the clinical resources page!

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Background: Collaborative Care + Integrated Practice Units

Dell Medical School has committed to deploying an evidence-based model of fully-integrated mental health care delivery systems under the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM). The CoCM model is a way of providing mental health services in a primary care setting to target common, mild/moderate complexity, mild/moderate severity problems. Collaborative Care (CC) will be implemented in many of the school's Integrated Practice Units (

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IPUs) to strategically address the mental health needs of chronically ill patients

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 begun seeing patients on October 17, 2017. 

The clinics are using team-based models

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 built around individual patients, a reflection of the innovative educational principles developed by the Dell Medical School.

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On November 28, 2017,

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 began providing treatment for patients with multiple sclerosis, cognitive impairment/Alzheimer's disease and bipolar disorder.

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Terms:

  • CC is a treatment approach involving the integration of interdisciplinary professionals to proactively manage mental disorders. 
  • IPU is a patient-centered approach that brings together a range of providers and support staff to address a specific disease or clinical condition.

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