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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.