Primary Care Interest Group
“It’s much more important to know what sort of patient has a disease than what sort of disease a patient has.”
-William Osler, Father of Modern Medicine
“Primary
care brings promotion and prevention, cure and care together in a safe,
effective and socially productive way at the interface between the
population and the health system. The features of health care that are
essential in ensuring improved health and social outcomes are
person-centeredness, comprehensiveness and integration, and continuity
care, with a regular entry into the health system, so that it becomes
possible to build an enduring relationship of trust between people and
their health care providers.”
“Primary Health Care - Now More Than Ever”
World Health Organization (WHO) Annual Report 2008
Get Involved
National Primary Care Week
NPCW is an annual event that highlights the importance of primary care.
It is designed to bring health care professionals to the table to
discuss and learn about the impact of primary care and
interdisciplinary heath care, especially as they pertain to underserved
populations.
- TransforMed is focused on practice redesign in an effort to create PCMH’s across the nation.
- p4
(Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice) is a 6–year, 14-site,
national comparative case study of a spectrum of innovations associated
with the Patient-Centered Medical Home in family medicine residency
training.
- Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative:
“A coalition of major employers, consumer groups, patient quality
organizations, health plans, labor unions, hospitals, physicians and
many others who have joined together to develop and advance the patient
centered medical home”.
Resources
Online Resources
For Future Family Physicians…
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP)
For Future General Internists…
American College of Physicians (ACP)
American College of Osteopathic Internists (ACOI)
For Future Pediatricians…
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
American College of Pediatricians
National Health Service Corps (NHSC)
- Scholarships
- Loan Repayment Program: Federal & State
- Educational Modules
designed to help current & future clinicians begin to understand
contemporary practice settings, cross-cultural issues and disease
patterns.
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
American Public Health Association
National Association of Community Health Centers
National Rural Health Association
CDC Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Journal of Primary Care
National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine
Books to Promote Discussions on Primary Care
- The Social Transformation of American Medicine
Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize in American History.
“One of the great values of this broad and comprehensive work is that
it examines the various roads not taken in the development of American
health-care systems; Starr would not be sorry, he writes, if his
analyses of these roads 'served as a reminder that the past had other
possibilities, and so do we today.' This volume serves that purpose
admirably." (Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review. Copyright 2006
Virginia Quarterly Review)
- A Textbook of Family Medicine
"This is undoubtedly the most important publication on the discipline
of family medicine, but more to the point, the concept of
patient-centered care [proposed in the book] will recast medical care.
This revolution, thanks to Dr. McWhinney, is well under way around the
world." (Lynn Carmichael, M.D., Chair Emeritus, Department of Family
Medicine and Community Health, University of Miami School of Medicine)
- Doctoring: The Nature of Primary Care Medicine
"Doctoring is a contribution of unexpected breadth--iconoclastic in
conception and rich in insight. One can only hope that its words
resonate in the minds of the nation's policy planners and in the hearts
of our primary-care doctors." (Eric Cassell, The Wall Street Journal)
- Big Doctoring in America: Profiles in Primary Care
“In the words of GPs and other generalized caregivers, the author
identifies the rewards and hassles of this type of practice. This theme
has been treated in a more scholarly manner in several other
publications, such as Promoting Human Wellness; however, Mullan's work,
aimed at the general reader, underscores an important issue in American
healthcare and makes a compelling statement. For larger public
libraries.” (Margaret K. Norden, Marymount Univ. Lib., Arlington,
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.)