Designing and Implementing High Quality Primary Care: National Recommendations and Practical Approaches

Overview:

An ad hoc committee, under the auspices of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), examined the current state of primary care and made a report with actionable objectives and recommendations for implementing high-quality primary care in the United States (Nationalacademies.org/primarycare). In parallel, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has been reviewing and updating its methods and recommendations to better address root causes of poor health (equity, racism, social determinants), all highlighted in the NASEM report. Dr. Krist a member of both groups and director of Virginia’s primary care practice research network, the Virginia Ambulatory Care Outcomes Research Network (ACORN), will review these reports and recommendations. He will highlight efforts in Virginia to improve primary care with examples of health system and research efforts to demonstrate local, state, and national efforts to support primary care and improve community health and wellbeing.

Objectives:

1.  Understand the recent recommendations from the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) as identified in the report Implementing High Quality Primary Care.
2.  Highlight new methods from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) to address equity, racism, social determinants, and sex/gender/identity and consider the implications for implementing high quality primary care.
3.  Describe the research and approaches used to implement high quality primary care in Virginia and explain how those approaches relate back to the new NASEM report and USPSTF methods.

 

Alexander Krist, MD, MPH
Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
Family Medicine Residency Program at Fairfax
Family Medicine Center

Financial Disclosures:

Alexander Krist, MD, MPH has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee members (Mark Nadeau, MD, Marcy Wiemers, MD, Maria Del Pilar Montañez Villacampa, MD, Christine Song, DO, Nehman Andry, MD, Gabriela Lopez, PsyD, Maureen Alvarado, DO, Yun Shi, MD, Stacy Ogbeide, PsyD, Inez I. Cruz, PhD, and Nichole Rubio) have no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee member Carlos Roberto Jaén, MD has disclosed he receives royalties from General Practice and Family Medicine for being UpToDate Editor-in-Chief.

Credits:

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

Target Audience:

Specialties – Primary Care; Family Medicine
Faculty, residents, other health care providers and staff from our department; physicians and health care providers from San Antonio and South Texas; and medical students in our third-year clerkship and fourth year rotations.

Accreditation:

The UT Health Long San Antonio School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation:

The Long School of Medicine designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.

For activity related questions, please contact:
Name: Nichole Rubio- FCM Grand Rounds Coordinator
Email: rubion@uthscsa.edu

For CME general questions, please contact
Ph: (210) 567-4445
Email: cme@uthscsa.edu