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The Dean's Lie About Medical School Primary Care Production

By Kevin Bernstein, MD, MMS

First, we want to congratulate all students who matched in family medicine! Welcome to the Family Medicine Revolution (#FMRevolution)! We also want to congratulate all students who matched in primary care residencies AND who plan to stay in primary care! We all need to work together to provide increased access...

Posted by Alex Folkl in Progress Notes Feb 21, 2012 1:58 pm EST

Why Medical Students Aren't Choosing Primary Care (and why they should)

By Matthew Mintz, M.D.

Most articles about why medical students don’t choose primary care will say that a career in primary care simply won’t pay off the enormous debt accrued in medical school. Indeed, the average 2010 graduate came away $157,944 in debt. And primary care salaries...

Posted by Sonya Collins in Progress Notes Feb 16, 2012 9:11 am EST

Learning to See in Primary Care

By Diana Tucci

“There – there’s a space between those two layers that you have to fold that edge into, do you see that?” I said to the older woman sitting next to me. I had never met anyone worse at following directions. It was a Lunar New Year celebration and she wanted to learn how to make origami paper cranes. It had been a long and...

Posted by Alex Folkl in Progress Notes Feb 14, 2012 11:27 am EST

Caring for Communities

By Mark Ryan, M.D.

When I entered medical school in Richmond, Virginia, I was certain I wanted to be in primary care but I was not yet sure what specialty. Once I had decided to work in a medically underserved community I chose family medicine because in a rural site, where resources are limited, there is added value in the breadth and scope of family medicine...

Posted by Sonya Collins in Progress Notes Feb 9, 2012 9:44 am EST

A Lesson from Peru

By Annie Mooser

The training requirements for Peruvian physicians are an exceptional experience which link doctors to the culture and circumstances of the country’s impoverished residents. Through that country’s mandatory rural service year, a requirement for anyone who wants to practice in a public Peruvian hospital, there is potential for the physician...

Posted by Alex Folkl in Progress Notes Feb 7, 2012 12:49 pm EST

A Portrait of a Family Medicine Doctor

An Interview with Lucy Hornstein, M.D.
By Sonya Collins

Video by Joanna Hornstein

Family physician Lucy Hornstein has been in practice in Pennsylvania for more than 22 years. In this three-minute mini-documentary produced by her daughter, Pennsylvania College of Art &...

Posted by Sonya Collins in Progress Notes Feb 2, 2012 9:34 am EST

Learning to Count Something: Lessons From Our Primary Care Week Survey

By Cody Dashiell-Earp

The first time I read Better by Atul Gawande, I was inspired by his advice: “Count something…it doesn’t really matter what you count. You don’t need a research grant. The only requirement is that what you count should be interesting...

Posted by Alex Folkl in Progress Notes Jan 26, 2012 10:38 am EST

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As a first-year medical student, I completely agree with this. Even at a school with a great primary care program (Un...

by Brian Blank on Why Medical Students Aren't...

Said so perfectly: However, most students find in medical school that primary care is not what they had envisioned....

by Susan Putnins on Why Medical Students Aren't...

Great article! I completely agree... it's not the salary (I think we'll be just fine with 6 figures!), it's the work l...

by David Margolius on Why Medical Students Aren't...

Excellent post, Dr. Ryan. Thank you for sharing your invaluable insight and experience with the community!

by Jenette Restivo on Caring for Communities

Wow! What a wonderful piece! My favorite line: "Every Peruvian doctor is a primary care doctor"! Thanks so much for s...

by Sonya Collins on A Lesson from Peru

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Susan Putnins posted Re: Project ECHO: Telemedicine for Rural New Mexico and Beyond

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Fantastic interview!

I can ' t answer these specific questions, but I wanted to point out a particularly favorite quote:

But we think primary care doctors treating patients in their rural areas actually results in better outc...
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