Progress Notes is PCP’s mostly guest-written blog. It’s a place to find positive, inspiring stories about primary care and leadership we might not see anywhere else. Interested in contributing? Contact us.
Progress Notes Blog
3 Leadership Lessons I Learned at the Gregg Stracks Leadership Summit
Kimberly Lin, an M.D. Candidate, Class of 2020 at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, shares how the Summit teaches students to become leaders that can unite all members of a team under a common vision and passion to achieve large-scale, effective change.
Unpacking New Orleans’ HIV Crisis: The Case for “Treatment as Prevention”
The underlying causes of New Orleans’ HIV crisis and how the “treatment as prevention” approach could help address the epidemic.
5 Tips to Start A Dialogue About Isolation
There’s a power in the act of breaking bread together that our society has long forgotten. Like the science of team-building, it takes work — and some hard-won wisdom.
Examining the Links Between Burnout and Trauma
Should the medical community start diagnosing and treating clinician burnout the same way as trauma?
Reflecting on the Research: How Do You Tell the Story of Burnout?
Within a few conversations, the enormity of our task was clear. To lend your voice to this powerful exploration of attitudes, challenges, and opportunities in primary care, contact us.
Moving from Thoughts and Prayers to Action
Are the challenges of our dysfunctional healthcare system grave enough — and the existential challenges to health professionals dire enough — to take action — not as individuals, but as a collective?
When Care Coordination Saves Lives
Care coordinators remain present for our most vulnerable patients, sometimes answering the most important calls that can make all the difference.
Leadership Development Research
Contact us to learn more and participate in PCP’s important research endeavor, focused on what it takes to lead in primary care today.
Lessons in Launching a Team (and Career) at Primary Care Progress
Early in 2018, seven students at Bryant University joined me on a parallel path of uncharted waters: launching our lives into Primary Care Progress.
Structured Discussion Groups Can Prevent Burnout
I wish I had known then what I know now about Balint groups – their powerful capacity to provide meaning and prevent burnout among physicians.