Duke Family Medicine Tools of the Trade

Want to talk, advocate, stategize, meet kindred spirits?

Join the second session of “Jammin’ for Primary Care”

Thursday, April 18, 2013

111 Pinecrest Road

7-8 pm

NCAFP just announced the Duke representatives for the Family Medicine Scholars program.  Congratulations are in order for Denise Pong and Jessica Friedman.  The NCAFP Scholars have an immersion experience that pairs them with practicing family physicians for a longitudinal look at the specialty.  They also have the opportunity to participate in the NCAFP annual meeting as well as receiving funding to the AAFP National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students.  The program also provides leadership mentoring and opportunities. 

Are you interested in innovation in primary care?

Did you know that UNC has one of the highest-ranked primary care programs in the country and Duke recently launched a Primary Care Leadership Track in their School of Medicine?

Want to hear more about the amazing innovations happening in the area (and around the country)?  

Next month, the nonprofit Primary Care Progress is hosting an evening town hall event featuring local and national primary care innovators, followed by an open discussion of your ideas for improving our primary care community.

WHEN: Wednesday, April 11 from 6:30-8:30pm
WHERE: Kerr Hall, UNC Campus (Auditorium 2001)
WHO: Local and national primary care innovators:

• Dr. Andrew Morris-Singer, President and Principal Founder of Primary Care Progress: “Transforming primary care: all hands on deck!”
• Dr. Stuart Levin, Wake Internal Medicine Consultants, Raleigh: “Advancing Healthy Communities”

The speakers will be followed by a town hall discussion of ways we can work together to strengthen the local primary care community.

Light refreshments will be served.  Come to be inspired, energized, and heard! 

We hope you’ll join us,

Primary Care Progress leadership, UNC & Duke

Kristen Amann, MD

Meg Beal, PA-C

Brian Blank, MS1

Chris Danford, MS3

Trevor Dickey, MS1

Dan Green, MS2

Genie Komives, MD

Brittany Pierce, MS1

Cleveland Piggott, MS2

Amy Shaheen, MD

Barbara Sheline, MD, MPH

Sarah Smithson, MD, MPH

ABOUT PRIMARY CARE PROGRESS
Primary Care Progress (www.primarycareprogress.org) is an exciting, first-of-its-kind organization that specializes in energizing primary care communities.  Chapters of PCP are forming at both UNC and Duke.  Across the country, thanks to grassroots efforts with students and practitioners just like you, Primary Care Progress chapters have: 

• Created “Innovation Collaboratives,” working relationships that pair faculty with medical students to engage in hands-on clinical innovation projects
• Formed primary care mentorship networks
•        Led efforts to reform medical education, including creating primary care electives and supporting scholarly primary care research for credit
• Collaborated with the Center for Primary Care at Harvard Medical School (HMS) to better support and train students and residents interested in primary care. Since then, HMS has seen its match numbers into primary care residencies increase.