Group Medical Visits - Program Benefits

Benefits of Group Medical Visits

For Patients

For Physicians

• Learn about their illness from providers and other patients
• Share their experience
• Gain support from the group
• Improve their access to physicians and the medical team
• Opportunity to ask questions they might not ask in solo visit
• More time for psychosocial issues
• Put their own illness experience in perspective
• Improve their long-term health
• Gain confidence in their ability to self-manage their conditions

• Increase efficiency of patient care and follow-up
• Reduce patient hospitalizations and emergency room visits
• Spend more time with patients in a relaxed setting
• Educate patients about their illness
• Reduce patient anxiety
• Increase patient participation in ongoing care
• Provide systematic follow-up
• Increase professional satisfaction
• Ease practice load by reducing number of appointments