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With PCMH, Loma Linda Program Helps Physicians Prepare for Practice
October 2010 - California Family Physician Magazine
By Lauren M. Simon, MD, MPH

"Our residency program's faculty coined this one-line moniker that describes our goal in training residents: 'Nurturing system-savvy servant leaders in whole-person care.' We use core family medicine values to provide continuous care within a family and community context, promote healing relationships and maintain a whole-person care focus. Whole-person care is patient centered and considers all domains of the individual: physical, physiological, social, emotional and spiritual.  Although we have been teaching whole-person care for many years, this description fits right in with the new model of care and the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH). Our clinic has achieved National Commission on Quality Assurance (NCQA) Level 1 PCMH designation."

March 18, 2010 - AAFP News Now
Match Results: 2010 Fill Rate for Family Medicine Highest Ever
For the first time, all 14 residencies in the Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice, or P⁴, Demonstration Initiative filled their open positions during the Match, according to Perry Pugno, M.D., M.P.H., director of the AAFP Division of Medical Education. Read the story »

Dec 9, 2009 - The New Physician - a publication of the American Medical Student Association
Help wanted?
Dr. Larry Green of the department of family medicine at the University of Colorado is helping design primary care residency programs that will prepare the next generation of family doctors to practice this kind of medicine. Green believes that over the past decade, a consensus has developed that all roads lead to PCMH. Nonetheless, Green admits that all these roads go through some kind of payment reform. "My own view is that there is no choice but to continue to move forward with a new model of primary care," says Green, "but simultaneously, we must be working on changes in payment methods. If you ask, Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? the answer is yes." Meanwhile, says Green, there are lots of workarounds. The change is already being made by what Green describes as "innovative people who refuse to be held back by obsolete structures."

August 31, 2009 - AAFP News Now (ANN)
Academy's New Online Presentation Designed to Educate Medical Students About PCMH
"The Academy's Division of Medical Education and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's, or STFM's, Group on Predoctoral Education have designed two new online resources for medical students that explain the patient-centered medical home, or PCMH, and its importance to family physicians."

February 17, 2009 - AAFP News Now (ANN) Special Report
Family Medicine Residencies Are Incorporating Medical Home Model
While most family medicine residencies have implemented some portion of the patient-centered medical home model, the 14 residencies taking part in the P4 initiative are well down the road when it comes to educating future family physicians in PCMH. Perhaps spurred by the early successes of P4 residencies, other residency programs, such as the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita Family Medicine Residency Program at Smoky Hill-Salina, are integrating PCMH into their curriculum, as well. The article includes interviews and updates from P4 partcipants Middlesex Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program, Hendersonville Family Medicine Residency, and University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency in Denver, as well as podcast interviews with residents from Smoky Hill which has recently engaged TransforMED for PCMH facilitaton and technical assistance services.

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Winter 2009 - AAFP Center for International Health Initiatives Winter 08-09 International Update Newsletter
The Global Health Residency at Loma Linda University
"Loma Linda University's P⁴ program is pioneering a unique way of preparing the international family physician for practice: the global health residency. In January 2006, the first longitudinally integrated four-year family medicine/ preventive medicine program was approved. James Crounse, MD and Jessica Watters, MD, two second year residents, have been instrumental in its construction..."
Sometimes the Best Teacher is a Failed Project
"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. We had heard this oft-repeated cliché, but upon returning from our summer in Peru this insight had never been more salient. Months of planning meetings, exhaustive lists of needed supplies, and numerous predictions about project outcomes had not adequately prepared us for the reality of an international health care project. Within the first week, local health care worker strikes, bacterial dysentery, and the acknowledgement of an inoperable protocol forced us to abandon our project altogether. But the experience gained as a result..."

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The P⁴ Innovator's Journal recently featured an essay entitled "Leading Change" by Alan Douglass MD and Michael Stehney MD MPH of Middlesex Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. Click here to download the article as an Adobe PDF file.

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