Managing The New Primary Care: The New Skills That Will Be Needed
- 1 May 2010
- journal article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 29 (5), 1010-1014
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0197
Abstract
Developing new models of primary care will demand a level of managerial expertise that few of today's primary care physicians possess. Yet medical schools continue to focus on the basic sciences, to the exclusion of such managerial topics as running effective teams. The approach to executing reform appears to assume that practice managers and entrepreneurs can undertake the managerial work of transforming primary care, while physicians stick with practicing medicine. This essay argues that physicians currently in practice could be equipped over time with the management skills necessary to develop and implement new models of primary care.Keywords
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