Managing The New Primary Care: The New Skills That Will Be Needed

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 re...

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Published in:Health Affairs 2010-05, Vol.29 (5), p.1010-1014
Main Author: Bohmer, Richard M.J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business models
Conflict resolution
Design
Disease management
Infrastructure
Innovations
Managerial skills
Multidisciplinary teams
Nurses
Organizational change
Physicians
Primary care
Schools
Social workers
Succession planning
Teams
Technological change
Workforce planning
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Summary: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. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0278-2715
1544-5208
DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0197