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

Assembling patient-centered medical homes--the clerkship initiative.

Electronic health communication: an educational application for this principle of the Patient-centered Medical Home.

The Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) relies on comprehensive, consistent, and accessible communication for the patient with all members of their health care team. "E-medicine" and health information technology (HIT) create many new possibilities in addition to standard face-to-face encounters. There is interest by both physicians and patients for enhanced access through electronic communica...

Shared decision making: skill acquisition for year III medical students.

BACKGROUND A foundation of care within a Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) is respect for patients' values and preferences. Shared decision making (SDM) involves a set of principles and approaches to working with patients that integrates medical information and data with the preferences, values, and support systems of individual patients facing medical decisions. The value of SDM is increasi...

Clerkship from the Perspective of Students of Health Services Management and Family Health in Tabriz University of Medical Sciences

Introduction: Health services management and family health students require professional knowledge and skills to meet clients’ and health systems needs and expectations. In this area, clerkship has a fundamental role to achieve specific skills and competencies. This study aimed at exploring the root problems in clerkship from the viewpoint of students in order to suggest applicable recommendati...

Building the case for the patient-centered medical home.

Five years have passed since the Future of Family Medicine report warned that the position of family medicine in the United States would be “untenable in 10 to 20 years unless changes occur in the broader health system and within the specialty.” To the casual observer, it may appear that not much has changed in five years, but family medicine leaders see a better future on the horizon. The focu...