A medical home: changing the way patients and teams relate through patient-centered care plans.

The patient-centered medical home model incorporates patient-centered care as a central tenet and espouses the health care team partnering with an engaged patient. The tools to accomplish this type of care have not evolved along with these values. This report describes how the adoption and use of a patient-centered care plan (PCCP) document enhanced care for complex patients and changed the relationships with health team members.

Teaching adaptive leadership to family medicine residents: what? why? how?

Health care reform calls for patient-centered medical homes built around whole person care and healing relationships. Efforts to transform primary care practices and deliver these qualities have been challenging. This study describes one Family Medicine residency's efforts to develop an adaptive leadership curriculum and use coaching as a teaching method to address this challenge.

Incorporating population medicine into primary care residency training.

Background And Objectives: Expanded competencies in population health and systems-based medicine have been identified as a need for primary care physicians. Incorporating formal training in preventive medicine is one method of accomplishing this objective.

Methods: We identified three family medicine residencies that have developed formal integrated pathways for residents to also complete preventive medicine residency requirements during their training period.

Teaching team membership to family medicine residents: what does it take?

Primary care reform proponents advocate for patient-centered medical homes built on interdisciplinary teamwork. Recent efforts document the difficulty achieving reform, which requires personal transformation by doctors. Currently no widely accepted curriculum to teach team membership in Family Medicine residencies exists.

Physical activity and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.

Background: Previous studies have suggested an inverse relationship between physical activity and markers of inflammation such as high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP). However, these were inconsistent, and few examined whether race and gender influenced the relationship. This study determined a cross-sectional association between physical activity and hs-CRP level in 6142 middle-aged white, Chinese, black, and Hispanic participants enrolled in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis in 2000-2002.