Academy's New Online Presentation Designed to Educate Medical Students About PCMH

The Academy's Division of Medical Education and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's, or STFM's, Group on Predoctoral Education have designed two new online resources for medical students that explain the patient-centered medical home, or PCMH, and its importance to family physicians.

The new resources can be found on the Virtual Family Medicine Interest Group, or FMIG, Web site.

Included are a PCMH PowerPoint presentation (30-page PowerPoint file; About Downloading) and an accompanying set of speakers' notes (11-page Word file; About Downloading).

The PowerPoint presentation

The speakers' notes offer additional information and talking points for each slide and encourage presenters to expand on their real-life practice and other medical experiences.

"We wanted to put all the information about the PCMH into the hands of the people talking to students," said Amy McGaha, M.D., assistant director of the Medical Education Division, who helped develop the presentation.

The presentation also describes Community Care of North Carolina, a 10-year-old Medicaid care-management program that now serves more than 750,000 North Carolina residents via 15 primary care-based provider networks. Information on Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice, a joint initiative by the American Board of Family Medicine, the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors and TransforMED in which 14 family medicine residencies are teaching innovative models of care that spotlight the PCMH, also is part of the materials.

Family medicine faculty members are encouraged to give the presentation to their medical students, especially during FMIG meetings. Faculty and students are invited to send their comments about the new resources to Ashley DeVilbiss, M.P.A., AAFP student interest manager, or McGaha.