Welcome

Welcome to the Beyond Clinic Walls (BCW) website, and thank you for your interest in BCW!

BCW takes students out of the traditional setting of a classroom and partners them in the community with older adults. Interdisciplinary teams of students, who are early in their training, visit older patients in their homes, form rich relationships, provide in-depth assessments, and coordinate their care with referring practitioners, families, and community services.

Below is a link to a pdf of the 2nd edition of Beyond Clinic Walls, a manual that describes the creation of the UNC-CH School of Medicine program, developed by the student group Mobile Student Health Action Coalition (MSHAC), to partner students with older adults who have been identified as needing home visits for the upgrading and improvement of their health care. Beyond Clinic Walls is intended to help schools who wish to create such a program at their institution, to do so successfully.

McWilliams, A. Beyond Clinic Walls. 2nd edition. Chapel Hill: Center for Aging and Health, UNC-CH School of Medicine, September 2006.

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This website is designed to provide you with the information necessary to develop and implement a successful BCW program at your school. You will also find a section that includes examples drawn from UNC’s BCW program and examples of helpful documents and forms that are downloadable.

You may choose to access the material contained on this site in three different ways.

  • By clicking on the next button you will be taken step by step through the manual. As you move through the different sections, you will be able to see where you are in the site on the menu bar. If need be, this menu bar will allow you to move independently within the sections.
  • You may also use the menu bar to navigate through the manual in any order that you like.

Please contact us for additional information and support.

Thank you and good luck in starting your BCW program!

This content is based on the Mobile Student Health Action Coalition program at UNC Chapel Hill

Written by:
Andrew McWilliams, MS III, MSHAC coordinator 2004-2005 and 2005-2006

 With contributions from:
Cheryl Rosemond, PT, GCS, MSHAC advisor

With support from:
Center for Aging and Health
School of Medicine
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
and
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation

Last updated 7/16/2007.