Project DOCC(Delivery of Chronic Care)
Project DOCCsm—the first of its kind in Michigan—helps families of chronic care patients connect with pediatric residents who might be able to offer a new perspective on caring for sick children.
About Project DOCC
Project DOCC is a groundbreaking training program with a simple goal: to improve each patient's quality of life by showing physicians-in-training how chronic illness affects patients and their families.
Project DOCC's philosophy is that residents can become better, more compassionate doctors when they witness—firsthand, from the point of view of the patient and family—what daily life is like with a chronically ill child outside the hospital setting.
A New Perspective
Participants in the program have the opportunity to see what it's really like to care for a disabled or chronically ill child every single day, at the family's home. Some examples include:
- Understanding the impact on the patient and family when the entire day's plans have to be changed because a child suddenly needs hospitalization
- Gaining perspective on traveling with an incontinent child, including how families deal with a child who is too big to change on a restroom changing table and the challenge of performing the task discreetly
- Seeing the joys and rewards of caring for a chronically ill child and how it changes viewpoints and contributes to life's lessons
- Learning how it feels to see a smile on the face of a chronically ill child and know the or she is happy, if only temporarily
- Discovering how parents creatively cope with caring for their child while managing the rest of the family's—and their own—needs
Residency directors find Project DOCC gives residents an unforgettable, real-life experience in family and community medicine. Medical residents find Project DOCC offers a simple, engaging way to improve skills and acquire ACGME core competencies, in a minimal amount of time. Parent teachers find Project DOCC offers them the chance to personally improve the future of health care.
For more information, contact:
Rhonda Hoyle
Helen DeVos Children's Hospital
100 Michigan NE MC 011
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503
(616) 391-2630
rhonda.hoyle@devoschildrens.org
Maggie Hoffman
Director, Project DOCC
18 Dunster Road
Great Neck, New York 11021-4640
(516) 829-0786
projectdocc.org
projdocc@aol.com or
projectdocc@verizon.net
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