The Future of Family Medicine Residency Training
Health Resources and Services Administration
The University of Missouri Family Medicine Residency is committed to training physicians for rural communities and other underserved populations, and for academic roles. Our project has three goals:
Goal 1: Train residents to provide effective and continuously improving primary care to patients with chronic illness.
Goal 2: Train residents to care for underserved populations and other high risk groups, such as the elderly and individuals affected by substance abuse, homelessness, domestic violence and HIV/AIDS.
Goal 3: Train residents to effectively practice in a new care model, emphasizing facile use of the electronic health record, multidisciplinary collaboration, ongoing quality improvement, and patient-centered care.
Our innovative and practical chronic care curriculum will double the amount of time first year residents are in clinic, thereby more quickly increasing the number of patients with chronic illness in their practices, and increasing the duration of time they care for these patients. We will develop a curriculum that focuses on caring for underserved populations based on problem-based learning cases of high risk patients that may not be prevalent in their residency practices. Finally, residents will train in a new model of care: working in multidisciplinary teams and using a customized electronic health record to promote efficiency, patient-centered care, and quality improvement.
For more information, contact:
Erika Ringdahl, MD
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