Assembling patient-centered medical homes in teaching practices--one strategy.

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...

Assembling patient-centered medical homes--the care principles.

(Fam Med 2007;39(10):697-9.) The Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a model for providing patients with the services they need. It also reflects our core values, but the vision of the PCMH can seem rather abstract and perhaps unrealistic and unattainable. Is it really possible to create a PCMH? What do the principles (personal physician, physician-directed medical practice, whole-person or...

Assembling patient-centered medical homes--is this focus on patient care a distraction from STFM's primary mission?

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

The Brown Primary Care Initiative Design for Strategies towards Patient- Centered Medical Home Practice Transformation

Introduction: Primary care providers are needed who provide cost-effective, comprehensive care that is teambased and patient-centered (i.e., Patient-Centered Medical Homes-PCMH). Although PCMH implementation is underway in a variety of settings across the U.S, adopting the PCMH model can be challenging even in motivated and efficient practices. The purpose of this study was to help facilitate P...