What does a medical social worker do? | Kristin Scheeler | UW-Madison School of Social Work

Kristin Scheeler, MSSW, CAPSW, OSW-C of the UW Hospital and Clinics presented the second Health, Aging and Disability lecture on April 7, 2016 on the career path of medical social work. This presentation was generously sponsored by Oak Park Place of Madison, oakparkplace.com/

[@GavinOvsak]

Love it! As a resident physician, and on behalf of my co-residents, we really appreciate the hard work and code of ethics of our social work colleagues. Thanks for doing what you do!

[@myhomevideos2011]

This is my second week interning as a Hospice Medical Social Worker and I absolutely love it! Great video too!

[@FreeSoul929]

This was so helpful. As a first year social worker, I have taken an interest in medical social work. This video is great! Thank you!!

[@1032godofwar]

Currently in undergraduate for health sciences and this field has really been pulling my interest.

[@rebetmoses4144]

this was so helpful. I have taken an interest in medical social work and its pillars of human being life.

[@Nate2trey]

Great presentation! I’m currently a second year MSW student interning in a hospital setting and I love it!

[@melissalefebvre5851]

Thank you for this, very insightful.

[@sylvianavarro4384]

I feel like there is not much information or awareness on the medical social work but your video helped a lot, thank you! There is no emphasis available , or required/suggested course for the BSW focusing on medicine at the UWGB campus so I often feel like I’m going in blind and unprepared on what to expect as a medical/clinical professional as opposed to the micro professions like case management or therapy. Your lecture was impressive to me considering the amount of information you had to remember and supply while being sick.

[@SuperSasha1969]

In one word EVERYTHING! Medical social workers do everything

[@kiwyona3277]

Definitely before Covid

[@gracemishler757]

I am Grace Mishler (Friesen) 1988 U of Illinois, MSW graduate I am an International Social Worker in Vietnam with an innovative healthcare project initiative: Medical Social Worker in the Eye Unit.. I appreciated your experience; and I found your experience as a Medical Social worker to be interesting, creative, and frustrating at the same time.

[@LadyParris]

Grace Mishler hi there! I just discovered your comment. I’m curious how you got a job Internationally as a social worker? I’ve lived internationally for years and considering a career in social work, so would love to continue to work internationally. I’d love to learn your tips in working overseas :)

[@msadm1225]

@@LadyParris pretty sure you can be a social worker anywhere! obviously policies, laws, and professional licensure differ from country to country but the settings and roles are pretty universal

[@teleaubarevels1903]

I-L-L.....

[@nunyanunya6398]

hi why did it fade to black>

[@cillawaithira1566]

So what is the difference between medical social worker and Social worker?

[@kristinscheeler7202]

Medical social workers perform a social work generalist role within medical settings, like hospitals, outpatient clinics, hospices, nursing homes and the like!

[@yu6htbfgd]

How many years a school do ya need and how much do they make

[@kristinscheeler7202]

You need a Master's Degree in Social Work and you can earn about $50-100K per year, depending on where in the USA you are working.

[@Chris-ts8ih]

Very informative, I definitely would like to become a medical social worker. I have a bachelors in community health and 3 years of patient care experience. I want to go back to school for this profession. Should I get a masters in social work leading towards clinical?

[@Chris-ts8ih]

viktorcello2005 I love your video. This is what I exactly want to do. Unfortunately, I just recently learn about this career and I don't have any volunteer or internship experience to show that I'm interested in Medical Social Work . For 3 years I've been dealing with Case Manager but actuality they were medical social workers. My experience I have so far. Currently, I'm doing an internship at Jamaica Hospital, promoting awareness of Health Care Proxy to patients. I'm also working as Patient Care which I take care of my aunt of 74 years who has schizophrenia, dementia, alzheimer, diabetes, and high blood pressure. On my free time, I help my cousin who has Schizophrenia as well. I work with his case manager to make sure he is on track. In the past, My father had stage 4 cancer so I was his primary care provider at home. I assisted with his daily living, and brought him to the hospital back and forth .I help my father get medicaid and palliative care by working with the medical social worker on his needs. My GPA is bad. I struggle maintaining my life and maintaining college. I have 3.0 overall GPA but my major GPA is 3.7 (Community Health). My overall GPA is low because of the science classes I've taken in the past. I wasn't academically ready (poor in reading, test taking and writing) and/or family problems. I don't want to become a Doctor, PA, or a Nurse but I want to work in the Hospital setting. I know this because my personal experience I had when my father was sick with cancer. I've dealt with every professional at the hospital for 2 years and I slept in the hospital for months. I feel that I would be a great medical social worker because I experience it from a patient's family end. My questions to you are as follows. I'm only interested in the clinical side of social worker. Can my personal statement speak on my desire and life experience that lead me career path of medical social worker only? I'm in the New York area, how would you go about getting Social Work Medical volunteer or internship experience? Is it worth getting a dual degree MSW/MPH for medical social worker. If you have a licensed clinical social worker, can you have your own practice and work as medical social worker at the hospital as well? Lastly, why would someone choose treatment from licensed clinical social worker over a psychiatrist? Thank you for your help.

[@kristinscheeler7202]

Your experience at Jamaica Hospital is exactly the kind of experience schools will be looking for. Your family experience will also be considered by graduate schools you might apply to. Your GPA sounds sufficient, as far as I am aware, but others may be able to chime in on that. In my experience, your boots-on-the-ground experience with issues of social justice, social work, case management, etc. have almost as much or as much bearing as your GPA in getting you into grad school. I actually had a fantastic GPA but VERY little experience volunteering or in internships so was initially not admitted to grad school, but was able to get in off a waiting list. Yes, in your personal statement, explain your experience related to taking care of your family and your current health care proxy work. If you are admitted to graduate school, the school should help place you in an internship. If you want to get some medical experience now, volunteer for a hospital, hospice, nursing facility or anywhere you think you might like to eventually work and explain that part of the reason you are volunteering is to get experience for social work school; explain your interests in medical social work and they might be able to give you jobs that relate to medical social work (at the hospital I just left work at, we had volunteers helping patients with health care proxies/health care power of attorney documents, for instance). I don't think a MSW/MPH is necessary, but if you are excited about learning about public health and might want to work for a public health provider, it really might enhance your resume! If you are licensed and have passed the national clinical exam, you can indeed have a private practice as well as a job at a hospital, but hospitals will not let you charge privately for patients you see while you are working your hospital job. You'd have to see those patients outside of the hours of your hospital job and also probably not recruit patients from your hospital job...it's kind of an ethical boundary you'd have to think about and discuss with the hospital employer. People might choose a SW over a PhD psychologist for therapy because it is less expensive or it is what their health insurance will pay for. A psychiatrist is a medical doctor who has been through medical school and additional training in mental health care, but sees mental health, generally, from a medical perspective. You would send someone to a psychiatrist for a medical examination as well as prescribing of medications to manage mental health. PhD psychologists and licensed social workers cannot prescribe medications. Best to you!

[@Chris-ts8ih]

Thank you for taking the time to help me. I finally have a better understanding about the field. I appreciate it very much. Have a bless week!

[@ArunKumar-vi2xj]

@@viktorcello2005 hi mam, what if a person has done his Master of Social Work from india, can he practice social works in another country..??

[@viktorcello2005]

@@ArunKumar-vi2xj you could possibly work in another country. I was trained in the United States and worked in England. You need to be in touch with the regulatory body that licenses social workers in whatever country you want to work. You may have to take a test or prove you have taken certain classes but it's very possible to work in another country. Best to you!

[@christophermcewan8065]

Report writing uses up a lot of paper! When dealing with good and evil your aim should not be to get a good mark for your report! Social Work needs to be radically changed!

[@Gabeloveyou]

Sandra Bullock clone ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️.

[@Vicky-en3xd]

John Halliday lol thought the exact same

[@kristinscheeler7202]

I can't tell you how many times I've heard that! Not a bad celebrity to look like, at all!

[@Tone202]

you look tired

[@kristinscheeler7202]

I was more sick than I knew; I had pneumonia. Thankfully, I'm okay now. :)

[@GavinOvsak]

These kinds of comments give me "You should smile more" vibes that wouldn't happen if this was given by a man.

[@teatalktable6009]

@@kristinscheeler7202 how long did it take you to become a medical social worker

[@kristinscheeler7202]

@@teatalktable6009 I did it one of the longer ways; I got a four year BA in Psychology and then went back a couple years later to do a two-year Master's degree in Social Work, focusing on Health/Aging/Disability. So it took a total of six years after high school. You could do it in five years after high school if you went into social work right away and got a Bachelor's in Social Work and then were accepted into an advanced standing Master's program, which is one additional year after the Bachelor's. If you needed to do it part time, it would take longer. It all depends on your personal situation!

[@teatalktable6009]

@@kristinscheeler7202 wow thank you :))

[@dustinmigues728]

This is #woke, Kristen Scheeler did not provide a pronoun so I will use ze. I do not know much about ze, this stated, I have a feeling I would enjoy this individual as an instructor. With the hope of being allowed to serve in positions that specializes in the unique challenges our rainbow experiences is my goal. Greater and greater numbers in each generation of our rainbow fear acknowledging our health concerns. The approach ze is embracing in this clip I feel is a vital step in collapsing new reported HIV infections. Building from ze example, I would incorporate undetectable is untransmittable & PrEP in the hope of attempting to destigmatize the fear ingrained in our rainbow for so long based on unacknowledged mass death of gay men leading to being acknowledged by criminalization of HIV. As my formal education continues, I hope peer-based resources are made available concluding the approach ze is taking along with "modernized HIV education" will encourage our rainbow to seek care.

[@kristinscheeler7202]

Thank you for the compliment, Dustin! My pronouns are she/her/hers, thank you for the sensitivity in not assuming.

[@skyleylines9459]

she seems stressed.

[@kristinscheeler7202]

I'm sorry! I was diagnosed with pneumonia shortly after this video but I still work in medical social work and I love it!

[@luke.jaguar]

She's giving a presentation.. a lot of people are slightly stressed speaking in front og groups.

[@paigeduckworth9849]

Her presentation is greatly diminished by so many "ums". I lost count after 35 ums!!!

[@bridamc3493]

Are you a Toastmaster (-:??

[@luke.jaguar]

I think your comment is greatly diminshed by so many "!!!".

[@kristinscheeler7202]

I'm sorry! I was more ill than I realized when I went ahead and gave this talk anyway. In the era of COVID, I would never have!

[@alww8073]

You did great, please ignore the negative comments. I learned so much from you, thank you. Glad you’re well.💙