Dr. Mark Schuster and the Innovative Approach of the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine
Hear Dr. Schuster’s insights and share what’s in store for the inaugural class at the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine on Relational Rounds.
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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.
Summit Sponsor Feature: Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
This weekend is Primary Care Progress’ 6th Annual Gregg Stracks Leadership Summit! Today on the blog, we’re featuring one of our major sponsors, the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, and their contributions to our primary care community.
Summit Sponsor Feature: University of Utah Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
Primary Care Progress’ 6th Annual Gregg Stracks Leadership Summit is less than a week away! Today on the blog, we’re featuring one of our major sponsors, the University of Utah Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, and their contributions to our primary care community. Stay tuned for more sponsor Q&As next week, and enjoy Michael K. …
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.
PCP Hawai’i Pairs Aspiring Primary Care Doctors with Inspiring Mentors
At Univiersity of Hawaii’s John A. Burns School of Medicine, the PCP team pairs students interested in primary care with mentors in their chosen specialty. Second-year med student Megan Sumida tells us all about it.
New Primary Care Track Launches at Hofstra’s Northwell School Of Medicine
Hofstra University Northwell School of Medicine launched a primary care track called IMPACcT (Improving Patient Access, Cost and Care through Training) last June. Today on the blog, we learn all about the program through a Q&A with the IMPACcT program’s leadership: (clockwise from top left) Dr. Lauren Block, Dr. Alice Fornari, Dr. Joseph Conigliaro, and …
Why I Left Medical School
With just a few months left of medical school, this student decided she could do more to transform primary care from outside academia. So she took some time off and here’s what she did (hint: it involves an app).
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.