Family medicine, NAPCRG, and the Great Mandella.

believe that the growing ability to measure clinical outcomes is an opportunity to more clearly demonstrate that family physicians are this nation’s best hope to create a higher quality, lower cost health care system, but we must provide residents new skills to lead PCMHs and ACOs. Innovation, new ways of looking at and solving problems, therefore, is an imperative for our specialty. We may need to look outside medicine to fi nd ideas and solutions from other business industries to improve our model of delivery of care. We have over 450 federally funded test sites called family medicine residencies which are a ready-built system to test new ideas to train better primary care physicians and provide better health outcomes than anyone else. If we don’t, others will; and those others may not have the values of the family physicians of the past that inspire us to create “classics” for the future. Joseph Gravel Jr., MD; Todd Shaffer, MD Stoney Abercrombie, MD; Karen Hall, MD; Grant Hoekzema, MD; Stanley Kozakowski, MD; Michael Mazzone, MD; Benjamin Schneider, MD; Martin Wieschhaus; MD