CRS Diabetes: An Effective Model for Improving Family Medicine Resident Knowledge, Competence, and Performance in Diabetes Care.

The Chief Residents Summit on Intensifying Diabetes Management, now in its 15th year, has resulted in real-world improvements in patient outcomes and has shown itself to be an effective model for teaching diabetes to family medicine residents. This article describes the program and the evidence supporting its effectiveness.

How community members and health professionals conceptualize medical emergencies: implications for primary care promotion.

Access to continuous care through a primary care provider is associated with improved health outcomes, but many communities rely on emergency departments (EDs) for both emergent and non-emergent health problems. This article describes one portion of a community-based participatory research project and investigates the type of education that might be needed as part of a larger intervention to encourage use of a local primary care clinic. In this article we examine how people who live in a low-income urban community and the healthcare workers who serve them conceptualize 'emergency medical condition'.