Implementing High-Quality Primary Care

Family Medicine Researchers—Why? Who? How? When?

“…A congressionally-mandated study was independently completed showing the need for family medicine to produce and disseminate evidence for critical clinical and policy changes. [4][5][6] We need to continue to grow. As a field developing from a counter spirit to specialization, family medicine has not embraced research as a traditional activity that other established fields have.…”

Reenvisioning Family Medicine Residency Education

“…The recently published National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine report, Implementing High Value Primary Care, 5 lights the way. The first National Academies study on primary care in 25 years, the report underscores that primary care is a public good and the foundation of health care.…”

What to do with that policy paper (and why).

“…This is far from the first time that the merits of primary care have been articulated in a well-written report. In fact, the authors of the current report cite the Institute of Medicine’s 1996 report “Primary care: America’s Health in a New Era” as an example of such paper whose recommendations “remained largely unimplemented” (NASEM, 2021, p. 19).…”