Doctors Must Decide When to Trust AI — And When Not To
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This video is part of an ongoing, year-long Medscape series examining the decline of public trust in medicine.
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Reforming Physician Training to Improve Access to Primary Care — Lessons from Sweden
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Sweden is aligning primary care access goals with physician workforce policy more explicitly. Rather than treating physician training as separate from care delivery, Sweden is using workforce policy as a tool to strengthen continuity, accessibility, and person-centered primary care. To support this goal, the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare analyzed primary care workload and physician capacity, established a benchmark of one primary care physician per 1,100 residents, and issued recommendations to guide regional workforce planning toward that target.
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Report finds primary care shortage strains New Yorkers
A new report on New York’s healthcare workforce says the state still doesn’t have enough primary care providers, especially in upstate regions, leaving millions of residents with fewer options for routine care and longer waits for appointments.
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Primary Care Doctors Compare Tradeoffs Between Salaried Employment and Private Practice
A new qualitative study published in The Annals of Family Medicine spotlights how day-to-day practice differs between U.S. primary care physicians working for health systems and those in independent settings. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 30 physicians, the researchers identified five recurring themes that capture the practical trade-offs behind the growing shift toward employed models of care.
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Primary care practices successfully deliver family-based childhood obesity treatment
Childhood obesity affects one in five children in the U.S., yet most families have limited access to specialized weight-management programs for children. Now, a large clinical trial led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the University of Rochester Medical Center, the LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has shown that an effective, family-based treatment model can be delivered in primary care settings to treat children and adolescents with obesity.
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Confronting the Primary Care Crisis
The United States faces a potential crisis, as an aging population meets head-on with a shortage of primary care physicians, especially in rural and underserved areas.
On July 27th, this free webinar with researchers and policy experts assesed the factors contributing to U.S. primary care workforce shortages and policy approaches to ensure adequate access to care across communities.
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Primary care is ground zero for lifestyle medicine
Key takeaways:
- PCPs are uniquely positioned to help patients achieve healthier lives through lifestyle medicine.
- Lifestyle medicine does not require perfection. It starts with partnering with patients to design healthier lives.
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COMMENTARY – ‘Remove fee for service’: Gary Jacobs on premiums, physician risk and primary care-led reform
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Medical Economics spoke with [Gary] Jacobs about what is really driving premiums, why value-based care has taken so long to prove itself, what independent physicians need before taking on risk and how he reads the leadership now running CMS under administrator Mehmet Oz, M.D.
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How primary care can implement patient-centered AI policy
As AI adoption continues to grow throughout the healthcare sector, primary care specialties will need to plan for patients who are both excited and fearful of how the technology affects their care.
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Patients’ Perspectives on AI in Primary Care
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While participants were not given a specific definition of AI, many mentioned specific tools and use cases. AI tools and their adoption are rapidly evolving, as well as the evidence base on their effectiveness. This brief reflects the knowledge and experiences of primary care patients during the study period.
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