Chapter 08: Developing Multi-Disciplinary Care Within the Department and in the Institution
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Dr. Burke talks about his work in the early nineties on a planning group to develop multi-disciplinary care and more patient-centered care throughout the institution. (They had patients wear pedometers to see how far they had to walk for appointments.) He notes the speed at which the transition was made and the shock it could create.
Dr. Burke explains how the move to multi-disciplinary among faculty also created a situation in which all support services were also disease linked with resulting in increases in their specialization and expertise. He notes that this has been a “recipe for MD Anderson success.”
Dr. Burke notes that Gynecologic Oncology operated in a multi-disciplinary fashion from the start. He notes that MD Anderson was the first cancer center to restructure care around disease sites.
Identifier
BurkeTW_01_20140311_C08
Publication Date
3-11-2014
City
Houston, Texas
Interview Session
Topics Covered
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - Building the Institution; The Administrator; MD Anderson History; Discovery and Success; Understanding the Institution; Institutional Processes; This is MD Anderson; MD Anderson Impact; MD Anderson Culture; Building/Transforming the Institution; Multi-disciplinary Approaches; Growth and/or Change; Professional Practice; The Professional at Work; Patients; Patients, Treatment, Survivors
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Burke, Thomas W. MD and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Chapter 08: Developing Multi-Disciplinary Care Within the Department and in the Institution" (2014). Interview Chapters. 924.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/924
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