National Primary Care Week @ BUSM

Mon Oct 6 @ 5:30: "Crisis in Primary Care"
Speaker: Dr. John Abramson, family doctor & author of "Overdo$ed America"
Location: Hiebert
The two speakers will examine the critical shortage of primary care physicians and implications on health policy and patient health. Dr. John Abramson is an award-winning family physician, on the clinical faculty at Harvard Medical School. His publications include "Overdosed America." He will discuss the growing waste and comercialism in American medicine and identify health policy solutions.

Tue Oct 7 @ 12:00 Solutions- Patient-Centered Medical Home
Speaker: Dr. Charles Williams, Family Medicine
Location: R-109
The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PC-MH) is an approach to providing comprehensive primary care established by the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians, and American Osteopathic Association.

These groups, representing about 333,000 physicians, created a set of 7 principles for the PC-MH:

1. Each patient is entitled to a personal physician
2. The physician is the leader of a team of individual practitioners
3. Whole person orientation
4. Care is coordinated and/or integrated using the latest and most appropriate technology
5. Quality & safety
6. Enhanced access to physicians
7. Payment schemes that reflect the value of the PC-MH for patients' health.

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Wed Oct 8 @ lunch: Primary Care Tables, Lobby
We will be selling fruits with chocolate fondue. Information sheets will be provided about primary care highlighting statistics, critical issues and ways to get involved. There will also be a membership sign-up for the American Academy of Family Physicians (FREE) for those interested. Membership includes subscription to American Family Physician, a twice-monthly journal, scholarships to conferences, and other discounts and benefits.

Fri Oct 10 @ 12: Global Health and Primary Care
Speaker: Dr. Thea James, Emergency Medicine
Location: L-112
Dr. Thea James is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Boston Medical Center. She graduated with an MD degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1991, and finished her residency in Emergency Medicine right here at the Boston Medical Center. She has gone to Haitian hospitals to provide care with more modern technology, and is also the Co-Director of a BMC based Haitian Health Institute.

Fri Oct 10 @ 5:30: Primary Care Mixer
Location: BMC East Newton Pavilion, 2nd floor, Conference Room C/D
Come meet and talk with primary care residents, faculty, medical students and alumni.
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Tue Oct 14 @ 5:30: Geriatrics Workshop
Hosted by Boston University Chapter of the American Geriatrics Society
Speaker: Dr. Won Lee
Location: L-414
How well will you function when you are 85?

Join Dr. Lee and the BU Chapter of the American Geriatrics Society as they host an Interactive Aging Workshop to explore and experience the aging process. The workshop will be a hands on experience based on Xtreme Aging programs found at other medical schools.


Wed Oct 15 @ 6:00: Medical Activism Panel
Speakers: Dr. Michael Grodin (BUSPH), Dr. Felton Earls (Social Medicine, HMS), Dr. Joia Mukhergee (PIH, HMS), Dr. Jay Bhatt (PGY1 Cambridge Health Alliance, past AMSA president)
Location: Bakst
A multi-generational panel of physicians will reflect on the role activism plays in their medical careers and discuss the important of activism in medicine today.