Published in:
01-02-2014 | Innovation and Improvement
Training for Primary Care’s Future
Author:
Ishani Ganguli, MD
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 2/2014
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Excerpt
Editor’s note: With support from the California HealthCare Foundation, JGIM is pleased to continue this occasional series of first-person narrative reports on clinical innovation. In its current incarnation (formerly “Interval Examination,” now called “Frontline Account”), this series will continue to highlight clinical quality improvement, but with a special emphasis on primary care, often from the perspective of trainees. Contributors will share their perspectives as participant-observers in the development or implementation of a quality-enhancing innovation. The series is edited by two JGIM contributing editors: Ishani Ganguli, MD, an internal medicine resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital and practicing journalist who has written for the Boston Globe and New York Times; and Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, an expert in primary care policy and faculty physician at San Francisco General Hospital. In this lead-off article, Dr. Ganguli describes her experience as a resident participating in the Massachusetts General Hospital Ambulatory Practice of the Future. …
