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

Primary care residents want to learn about the patient-centered medical home.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is an important model of primary care with a promise of improving quality, reducing costs, and improving patient satisfaction. Many primary care residency programs have PCMH initiatives, but it is unclear if residents are interested in learning more about the PCMH. Our objective was to examine primary care residents' attitudes a...

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...

Training family medicine residents to build and remodel a patient centered medical home in Rhode Island: a team based approach to PCMH education.

Primary Care practices in the United States are undergoing rapid transformation into Patient Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs), prompting a need to train resident physicians in this new model of primary care. However, few PCMH curricula are described or evaluated in the literature. We describe the development and implementation of an innovative, month-long, team-based, block rotation, integrated i...

Health information technology in support of patient-centered medical homes is low among non-metropolitan family medicine practices.

The term “medical home” has been in use since at least 1967, when the American Academy of Pediatrics published Standards of Child Health Care. It defined medical home care as “accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated, and compassionate.” The Future of Family Medicine report, published in 2004, is generally credited with initiating the current national conversations ar...

Make room for teaching in the Patient-centered Medical Home.