Projects-in-a-Box
Produced by the American Medical Student Association's Generalist Physicians in Training initiative, these modules are designed to educate, provoke interest and help students develop opinions about important, timely issues in primary care medicine. For everyone using these Boxes, we appreciate your interest in helping to disseminate important primary care information to physicians-in-training across the country.
- Academic
Medicine and Managed Care: An Uncertain Future
details the relationship between managed care organizations,
academic medical centers and the funding of medical education.
- Child
Abuse and Neglect gives an overview of how dangerous
abuse and neglect are, demonstrating the need for medical students
to take a proactive approach towards reporting instances of abuse
and neglect.
- Childhood
and Adult Immunizations: A Model for Preventive Health
disseminates simple "how-to" steps to ensure basic
preventive health practices for both children and adults.
- Clinical
Ethics in a Generalist's Practice discusses the
range of medical decisions and challenges faced by generalist
physicians.
- Complementary
and Alternative Medicine offers information about
a variety of health care alternatives, explaining their value
in modern health care and the need for doctors to understand
their benefits.
- Cultural
Competency in Medicine outlines the steps that
physicians in training and in practice can take to bridge the
cultural gaps that may exist between themselves and their patients.
- The
Delivery of Urban vs. Rural Health Care compares
the challenges of health care delivery in different underserved
settings, providing resources for students interested in obtaining
experience in both settings.
- The
Future of International Health: Exporting Primary Care Medicine
provides a variety of resources for physicians-in-training who
are interested in studying abroad.
- Guns
and Violence explains the dangers of possessing
a firearm in the home and the effects of gun violence in society,
as well as the role physicians can have in firearm safety.
- Health
Care for the Homeless details the health problems
of the homeless, the barriers they face in accessing primary
care and the ways in which health care providers can help them.
- Leadership
Skills and Training offers resources to help the
physician-in-training develop such leadership skills as problem
solving, public speaking and conducting presentations.
- Legislative
Skills for Future Generalists outlines the basic
legislative process and the legislative issues that affect primary
care.
- Managed
Care 101 demonstrates the relationship between
medical education and managed care, providing the basic language,
history and concepts necessary to understand managed care topics.
- An
Ounce of Prevention focuses on preventive health
and includes an overview of the fundamentals of prevention with
statistics demonstrating its importance and impact.
- Physician
Supply and Distribution highlights the need for
primary care physicians, particularly in underserved areas, giving
an overview of the national policies that affect the health care
market.
- Primary
Care in the Urban ER discusses the role of the
urban emergency department in providing primary health care to
inner-city populations.
- The
Primary Care Team gives information on the different
members of the interdisciplinary health care team and on how
the team approach may improve health care.
- The
Senior Boom is Coming: Are Primary Care Physicians Ready?
highlights the population changes that are taking place
in America and how medical students can prepare for this generation
of patients.
- Tobacco,
Public Health and Primary Care explains the role
physicians can have in tobacco control legislation and the effects
of tobacco on the health of the community.
- Women's Health focuses on the delivery of primary care for women and creating an awareness of women's health policy, research and educational issues.