Patient-Centered Medical Home With Colocation: Observations and Insights From an Academic Family Medicine Clinic

Patient-Centered Medical Home

The patient-centered medical home movement--promise and peril for family medicine.

“Strengthen the Core and Stimulate Progress: Assembling Patient-Centered Medical Homes” was the theme of my year as the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine President for 2007 to 2008. I advocated strongly for the patient-centered medical home (PCMH), especially its relevance to the educational experiences in our teaching practices. Realizing the risk of being accused of “flipflopping” on thi...

The Patient - Centered Medical Home

1. Classify medication use and safety issues within primary care. 2. Explore how pharmacists engage with patient-centered medical home (PCMH) models. 3. Demonstrate the compatibilities between pharmacist-provided medication management services and PCMH principles. 4. Justify the integration of a pharmacist-led medication therapy management (MTM) program within a PCMH model. 5. Analyze advantage...

The patient-centered medical home: a brief educational agenda for teachers of family medicine.

In 2007 and 2008, STFM President John Rogers, MD, MPH, MEd, wrote a series of articles that outlined an educational agenda for the patient-centered medical home (PCMH).1-6 Over the past 5 years, data compiled by the Patient Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) have corroborated the historical evidence and added new evidence that the PCMH is a clinical model that improves health care outc...

The Patient-centered Medical Home: a new perspective for the family medicine clerkship.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) concept, essential functions of primary care, and an appropriate primary care workforce have been shown to improve health outcomes and reduce health care costs. This paper describes a curriculum that uses the PCMH and related health policy concepts as the foundation for didactic, clinical, and self-directed elements. The PCMH-fo...