Abstract
We use the team medicine approach in podiatry, such as PAD, for inpatients. The team medicine staff, mainly nurses, performed PAD screening for 1095 patients using the perfusion index between September 2015 and September 2016. We employed the method proposed by John Kotter, termed the 8-step process for leading change, to form the medical team. The first step is to create urgency. The second step is to form a powerful coalition. Following this 8-step process, we have created a medical team including doctors, nurses, physical therapists and clerks. We collected data and investigated PAD screening, and our study results were reported at academic and local meetings. Our medical team is rapidly developing community medicine and achieving leading change with multidisciplinary medical care systems for podiatry. We report the process and method we used to construct our medical team for podiatry.
