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.
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Primary Care Transformation and the Coming Changes in Delivery
After interviewing 150 leaders in healthcare for his book, Stephen Schimpff found some common themes in the changes we can expect to see in primary care transformation, and the drivers of those changes.
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For anybody who believes that the old fashioned, country doctor is just an outdated notion, Dr.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 …
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.
Direct Primary Care: Access Healthcare Payment Innovation
Brian Forrest didn’t want to practice family medicine in a system where receptionists ask, “Who’s your insurance provider?” before asking, “Why do you need to see the doctor?” But instead of leaving the system, he changed it, and the result is a cash-only, no-insurance practice that earns more and charges far less than the traditional model.
Storytelling in Healthcare for Social Change
Whether by faculty or peers who openly express disappointment in their choice to pursue primary care or by curricula that seem designed to steer trainees into subspecialties, nearly all summit participants had a story to tell about being shamed for their interest in the field. Nearly all felt marginalized.
Why Aren’t Medical Students Choosing Primary Care (and Why They Should)
I repeatedly ask medical students if they would choose a career in primary care if it would completely erase their student loan debt. A few hands go up, but not many.
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.
Stories for Social Change: An Interview with Marshall Ganz
If you want to be a part of PCP’s movement to transform primary care, here’s one thing you can do: Share your story. Here, Marshall Ganz tells us why storytelling is such a powerful tool to incite change.