This presentation aims to describe the implementation of the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) in a rural, academic primary care practice with preexisting Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) services. More specifically, this presentation outlines the process of exploration, installation, and initial implementation of CoCM into a well-integrated Family Medicine practice with multidisciplinary faculty and resident physicians, advanced practice providers, and master’s- and doctoral-level learners in marriage and family therapy, clinical health psychology, and pediatric school psychology. This presentation also describes the experiential and didactic training provided to interprofessional learners to enhance their clinical skills, facilitate utilization of a registry to support population health, and gain experience in consulting with psychiatric providers. Additionally, this presentation will examine the strengths and barriers of this program’s parallel CoCM-PCBH implementation, discuss learner experiences with these models, and identify future directions for growth and efforts to increase measurement-based care. By the end of this presentation, participants will be able to describe key milestones of this program’s implementation process and consider applications to their own clinical settings and training programs.
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