Types of Clinic Visit

This page lists various types of clinic visits you will encounter, their purposes, and the scope of management

Urgent Care

These are the most common visits for MACC and DHP same day clinic
Sometimes you may have urgent care visit scheduled for your continuity clinic days
goal: focus should be the acute issue, pick 1 or 2 issues to focus on that you can make acute changes with
If you order labs/images, make sure to call the patient to follow up
Try not to delve too much into chronic issues that needs to be addressed by PCP

these visits are scheduled for patients who were recently seen in the ED or discharged
goal: focus should be on hospital issue, medication reconciliation, repeat labs, and ensuring proper long term follow up with PCP/specialties
there is usually a discharge summary from the admission that includes things to do at follow up visit
many times you will need to have repeat labs. E.g. GI bleed in hospital needing repeat CBC at follow up
patients may need medication restarted. E.g. Septic patient with BP meds on hold until follow up

These are new patient visits where you see them for the first time as PCP
Main purpose is to get acquainted with the patient
Figure out any big to dos from health perspective
Acute issues ⇒ chronic health management ⇒ health maintenance ⇒ medicare wellness