Search results for "Workforce"
Taking team care from policy to practice
Medical practice is becoming increasingly team-based, which is leading to a renegotiation of the roles each clinician brings to patient care.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/01/scope.htm
1 Jan 2014
ACP and the ‘house of medicine’
ACP's outgoing president reflects on her past year, milestones the College has achieved, and what future goals remain.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/04/presidents.htm
1 Apr 2014
PERSPECTIVES 4 ACP Internist Fulfilling Medicare patients’ requests for ...
The failure to fix the sustainable growth rate (SGR) was a fre-quently discussed topic this year, along with physician workforce issues and medical lia-bility reform. ... Put words in our mouth. “You’ve heardabout the primarycare shortage …”. T E S T Y O U R S E L F.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/07/acpi-201407-puzzle_t1.pdf
23 Jun 2014
Leadership Day attendees push legislators to finish SGR fix
Physicians and medical students representing ACP took to Capitol Hill to discuss the sustainable growth rate formula, workforce issues, and liability reform.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/07/leadership.htm
1 Jul 2014
Devil can be in the details for DME requests
This issue covers topics including requests for durable medical equipment (DME), screening for stages 1 to 3 chronic kidney disease, and diagnosis of meningitis.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/07/editors.htm
1 Jul 2014
When will Medicaid begin to get the respect it deserves?
Medicaid is the largest provider of government-funded health coverage in the United States, based on number of people enrolled, yet it doesn't get as much attention as Medicare. That may soon change.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/07/washington.htm
1 Jul 2014
ACP submits statement on the use of race in university admissions
A federal court ruled July 15 that race can be taken into consideration in university admissions.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/07/29/10.htm
29 Jul 2014
IOM reforms need bigger role for primary care, ACP says
ACP has reviewed the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) recent efforts to revise the governance and financing of graduate medical education (GME).
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/08/05/8.htm
5 Aug 2014
Institute of Medicine report falls short on primary care training
Organized medicine reacted with concern to a proposal to restructure graduate medical education that did not take into account the looming shortage in primary care.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/10/presidents.htm
1 Oct 2014
Government dysfunction: It's enough to make a grown man cry
A host of issues highlight the dysfunctional approach that federal and state governments have taken toward issues with a direct impact on health care.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/10/washington.htm
1 Oct 2014