1) Agenda Setting Form.
Have patients fill out an Agenda form.
2) Have an MA announce next appointmentÂ
I recently worked with a physician who was my preceptor and his office is set up in a way that a medical assistant knocks and announces that the next patient is ready or it’s time for his next appointment (when there is no patient per se). That was a very effective strategy. When the nurse will come an announce, he may still go another 2 minutes or so but the patient knew that somebody else was waiting for him. It wasn’t the physician just rushing the patient out of his office.