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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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).
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?
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.