It’s time for academic medicine to embrace direct primary care

Physician
June 4, 2016

As a mid-career faculty physician in a family medicine residency program, I have taken a keen interest in the big picture of what is happening to the way our graduates and colleagues practice in the real world.  I’ve watched our residents as they prepare to graduate, deliberating among the most prevalent practice options presented to them in our region, usually as an employed doctor in a large multi-specialty practice, or …

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It’s time for academic medicine to embrace direct primary care

Direct primary care is a social movement. And it faces the same challenges.

Policy
November 20, 2015

The emergence of direct primary care (DPC) has the characteristics of a social movement, defined as a “purposive and collective attempt of a number of people to change individuals or societal institutions and structures.”

Moreover, the DPC movement has thus far succeeded largely because it is based on a guiding set of strongly-held principles from which its founders have not wavered.  The concept of direct primary care as …

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Direct primary care is a social movement. And it faces the same challenges.