Dear Colleagues,
Below you will find the summary report and notes from the first Annual ACGIM Chief's summit, as well as the PowerPoint presentations made there. It was truly our pleasure to have the benefit of so many thoughtful and dedicated leaders present, and your energy and engagement made the Summit a truly unique experience for GIM leaders. Thank you!
Summit co-chairs, Deborah Burnet, M.D. and David Rose, M.D., created this year’s opportunity to collaborate on critical issues for general internal medicine. The redesign of ambulatory care was the topic on the afternoon of December 2, 2007, and on the morning of December 3, we advanced our discussion on academic hospital medicine that had begun last year at the first summit.
Tom Bodenheimer, M.D. from UCSF set the stage by the describing the crisis in primary care access, the reasons for the crisis, how we might be making it worse, and whether or not we can improve academic primary care practices. He challenged us with the question, “Is it one of your personal goals to improve ambulatory primary care?” Greg Rouan, M.D., from the University of Cincinnati presented an overview of redesign of ambulatory practice for the chronic disease model. Eric Warm, M.D. from the same institution and director of the resident ambulatory practice presented their long block designed to improve resident education and patient care.
Part of the discussion focused on incentives for comprehensive chronic care and the patient -centered medical home. ACGIM can continue the dialogue regarding the redesign of ambulatory care on its listserv, assist with the benchmarking of data, and educate regarding the advanced medical home.
On our second half-day, Scott Flanders, M.D. from the University of Michigan presented the challenges and opportunities that currently face hospitalist medicine. He set the stage for three small rotating groups/workshops to move forward issues for hospital medicine.
The clinical/financial workgroup was facilitated by Vikas Parekh, M.D. and Niraj L. Sehgal, M.D. MPH, and tried to create the job description of academic hospitalists and the structure of their programs. Chad Whelan, M.D. and Andrew Auerbach, M.D. focused on promotion for academic hospitalists and opportunities for publishing in the areas of quality and patient safety. The idea of a boot camp to start new hospitalist faculty down a successful career path, with the development of educational skills as well as knowledge of billing and coding practices, was introduced by Jeff Glasheen, M.D. and Bob Centor, M.D. Plan now to attend next year’s summit.
ACGIM SUMMIT PRESENTATION & SUMMARY MATERIALS |
- ACGIM Summit
Meeting Minutes
- Presentation Materials: Ambulatory care
redesign
- Presentation Materials: Advancing
Academic Hospital Medicine - What is needed?
A. ACGIM Summit: Academic Hospital Medicine Challenges and Opportunities - Scott Flanders, MD
B. Clinical/Financial issues - Nuts adn Bolts of Hospitalist Programs - Vikas Parekh, MD & Niraj Sehgal, MD, MPH
C. Promotion for Academic Hospitalists - Chad Whelan, MD
D. Education and Academic Hospitalists - Jeffrey Glasheen & Bob Centor, MD
A. Thomas S. Bodenheimer, MD, MPH - “Why We Must Reform Ambulatory Practice”
(powerpoint slides 5221 KB)
B. Gregory Rouan, MD “Report
from the field: Experiences in redesign for the chronic disease model” (powerpoint slides 622 KB)
C. Eric Warm, MD “Redesign
at the University of Cincinnati - Obstacles and Progress” (powerpoint slides 33,758 KB)
ACGIM SUMMIT EVALUATION |
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