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This is an invitation to be part of a 90 minute online focus group that looks at student choice of family medicine and primary care.
The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts a shortfall of between 12,500 and 31,100 primary care physicians by 2025. While family medicine as a specialty has made significant efforts towards addressing this deficit, additional endeavors to further elucidate barriers within medical education leading to the shortage of primary care physicians are ongoing.
Family Medicine for America’s Health is a collaboration between the eight leading family medicine organizations in the United States to drive continued improvement of the US health care system and demonstrate the value of true primary care. The organization’s Workforce Team is tasked with developing strategies to increase medical student interest in family medicine, in an effort to promote the formation of a well-trained primary care workforce.
The Workforce Team is conducting online focus groups to get feedback on what impacts a student’s choice to pursue family medicine and primary care. The Team will be holding several focus groups in the upcoming weeks, and seeks participation by stakeholders who represent medical students, residents, medical school and residency faculty, program directors, clerkship directors, primary care interest group advisors, community preceptors, and department chairs to join in the discussion. Additionally sought for the discussion are participants outside of the family medicine specialty: internists, pediatricians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, to provide a diverse perspective to the dialogue.
While the immediate goal of the focus groups is to promote diverse yet invested collaboration for better understanding the question of medical student specialty choice, the after-effect of forming new alliances for the task of addressing America’s primary care shortage is potentially of equally significant value.
If you are interested in joining this discussion, please PM me. Thanks.
The Association of American Medical Colleges predicts a shortfall of between 12,500 and 31,100 primary care physicians by 2025. While family medicine as a specialty has made significant efforts towards addressing this deficit, additional endeavors to further elucidate barriers within medical education leading to the shortage of primary care physicians are ongoing.
Family Medicine for America’s Health is a collaboration between the eight leading family medicine organizations in the United States to drive continued improvement of the US health care system and demonstrate the value of true primary care. The organization’s Workforce Team is tasked with developing strategies to increase medical student interest in family medicine, in an effort to promote the formation of a well-trained primary care workforce.
The Workforce Team is conducting online focus groups to get feedback on what impacts a student’s choice to pursue family medicine and primary care. The Team will be holding several focus groups in the upcoming weeks, and seeks participation by stakeholders who represent medical students, residents, medical school and residency faculty, program directors, clerkship directors, primary care interest group advisors, community preceptors, and department chairs to join in the discussion. Additionally sought for the discussion are participants outside of the family medicine specialty: internists, pediatricians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, to provide a diverse perspective to the dialogue.
While the immediate goal of the focus groups is to promote diverse yet invested collaboration for better understanding the question of medical student specialty choice, the after-effect of forming new alliances for the task of addressing America’s primary care shortage is potentially of equally significant value.
If you are interested in joining this discussion, please PM me. Thanks.
