Insights on Facilitation: Closeness and Intimacy Through Virtual Facilitation
A third-year resident and PCP Team/Lead Coach reflects on developing meaningful connections through virtual interactions during COVID-19.
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Insights on Identity: How I Use My Power as a Doctor to Advocate for Others
A physician and PCP Lead Coach shares his journey towards more fully engaging in advocacy and leveraging his power as a doctor.
The Wright Center and the Role of Teaching Health Centers in the Future of Medicine
THCs are adeptly addressing three of the biggest stressors on the system: a primary care shortage amid an aging population, lack of access to care in America’s rural and underserved communities, and one of the greatest threats to the healthcare workforce: burnout.
Gregg Stracks: The Heart of Leadership
Please join me in reflecting on our collective luck at being a part of a network and movement connected to such an amazing person as Gregg Stracks, who gave so much of himself, at such a difficult time. Let’s commit to using PCP’s Gregg Stracks Leadership Summit to reconnect with the values that brought us into primary care.
Family Medicine or Internal Medicine: One Resident’s Choice
My third year of medical school cemented the passion for primary care I developed as a volunteer in a clinic for undocumented immigrants in San Francisco. Relationship building, continuity of care, and seeing the impact a primary care physician can have on a patient’s health all ignited my passion more than any angioplasty or neurosurgery ever could. But one question continued to nag me as I filled in the bubbles of my electronic residency application form and formulated my personal statement: family medicine or internal medicine?
Primary Care Track or Internal Medicine Categorical: Is a Rose a Rose?
I was cautioned that some programs were primary care tracks in name only and might have just one or two features that distinguish them from categorical programs. However, nearly all of the primary care tracks I saw appeared to offer exceptional training to prepare future physicians to not only adapt to, but also innovate in, our evolving healthcare system.
Dr. Oz Is Wrong: The Country Doctor Is (Still) In
For anybody who believes that the old fashioned, country doctor is just an outdated notion, Dr. Richard Young is here to tell you otherwise. In a recent New Yorker article about him, Dr. Mehmet Oz was paraphrased as saying that “Marcus Welby – the kindly, accessible, but straight-talking television doctor – is dead.” If he …
Family Medicine or Internal Medicine: How One Student Chose
Match Day is one of the most important days in a medical student’s life. It’s when students learn which residency program they “matched” into and whether the match will lead them to a clinic down the street or a hospital across the country. But the road to Match Day is often paved with tough decisions. Here, Anoop Raman, who will be starting NYPH-Columbia Family Medicine Residency in July, tells us how he chose between family medicine and internal medicine-primary care.
Mandatory Rural Service: A Primary Care Lesson From Peru
Due to mandatory rural service year, every Peruvian doctor is a primary care physician. Learn about one med student’s experiences in the country.