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Group Medical Visits and Clinician Wellbeing.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Impact of Implementing Virtual Diabetes Group Visits on Staff and Provider Wellbeing, Job Satisfaction, and Burnout: A Mixed Methods Analysis.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2025Trial
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- Group-Based Integrative Pain Management: Feasibility of a Factorial Randomized Trial in Safety-Net Primary Care.Journal of primary care & community healthTrial
- Layers of complexity: a directed content analysis of implementation determinants for integrative group medical visits for patients with chronic pain in safety-net primary care.BMC primary care · 2026Article
- Shared Medical Appointments and the Quintuple Aim of Health Care: A State of the Art Literature Review.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2026Review
- Twenty-first century management of diabetes with shared telemedicine appointments.Journal of telemedicine and telecare · 2025Review
- Social Capital and Cultural Health Capital in Primary Care: The Case of Group Medical Visits.Sociology of health & illness · 2025Article
- Testing the Feasibility of a Newly Developed Lifestyle Practice Targeting Social Connections: Narrative Healing Circle Shared Medical Appointments.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2024Article
- Patient Perspectives on Lifestyle Medicine Virtual Group Visits.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2024Article
- The Calm after the Storm: A State-of-the-Art Review about Recommendations Put Forward during the COVID-19 Pandemic to Improve Chronic Pain Management.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
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- Increasing access to specialist care with group medical visits: summary of a pilot in a post-crisis psychiatric clinic.Frontiers in health services · 2023Article
- The design and methods of the OPTIMUM study: A multisite pragmatic randomized clinical trial of a telehealth group mindfulness program for persons with chronic low back pain.Contemporary clinical trials · 2021Article
- Group-Based Integrative Pain Management in Primary Care: A Study Protocol for Multilevel Interventions to Address Health Disparities.Global advances in integrative medicine and healthArticle
- The Hidden Complexity of Virtual Mindfulness-Based Group Medical Visits: Comfort, Challenge, and the Influence of Social Determinants of Health.Global advances in integrative medicine and healthArticle
- Exploring the Feasibility and Acceptability of Telehealth Qi Gong Shared Medical Appointments: A Novel Approach to Expand Access.Global advances in integrative medicine and healthArticle
- Mindfulness-Based Group Medical Visits: Strategies to Improve Equitable Access and Inclusion for Diverse Patients in Cancer Treatment.Global advances in integrative medicine and healthArticle
- Implementation of Virtual Integrative Oncology Shared Medical Appointment Series (VIOSMAS) Within Mixed Diagnosis Population.Integrative cancer therapiesArticle
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Abstract
There is strong evidence for clinical benefits of group medical visits (GMVs) (also known as shared medical appointments) for prenatal care, diabetes, chronic pain, and a wide range of other conditions. GMVs can increase access to integrative care while providing additional benefits including increased clinician-patient contact time, cost savings, and support with prevention and self-management of chronic conditions. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many clinical sites are experimenting with new models of care delivery including virtual GMVs using telehealth. Little research has focused on which clinicians offer this type of care, how the GMV approach affects the ways they practice, and their job satisfaction. Workplace-based interventions have been shown to decrease burnout in individual physicians. We argue that more research is needed to understand if GMVs should be considered among these workplace-based interventions, given their potential benefits to clinician wellbeing. GMVs can benefit clinician wellbeing in multiple ways, including: (1) Extended time with patients; (2) Increased ability to provide team-based care; (3) Understanding patients' social context and addressing social determinants of health. GMVs can be implemented in a variety of settings in many different ways depending on institutional context, patient needs and clinician preferences. We suggest that GMV programs with adequate institutional support may be beneficial for preventing burnout and improving retention among clinicians and health care teams more broadly, including in integrative health care. Just as group support benefits patients struggling with loneliness and social isolation, GMVs can help address these and other concerns in overwhelmed clinicians.
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