Care in Community: How Shared Medical Appointments Improve Diabetes Care and Education

About one in 10 Americans have diabetes, a chronic condition that can lead to circulatory, renal and nervous system disorders. The Hispanic population in the United States is disproportionately impacted by diabetes, with Hispanic individuals being 1.5 times more likely to die from diabetes than non-Hispanic whites.

Leticia (Lety) Wilke and Kathleen (Katie) Judge, current students in UCSF’s Post Master’s Entry to the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) pathway, are leading efforts to address this inequity by providing diabetes care and education in Spanish for Spanish-speaking patients at their endocrinology clinic.

In this episode, Wilke and Judge discuss their work highlighting how an interprofessional team-led shared appointment model of care is effective in advancing diabetes care and education for linguistically diverse patients.

The guest host for this episode is Allie Siegel, a student in the school’s BSN Entry to the DNP pathway, Family Nurse Practitioner specialty.