Tag: Clinic First Collaborative

When we started the AFMRD Clinic First Collaborative our three main goals were to improve scheduling of residents in clinic to optimize continuity and resident engagement, improve empanelment and engage residents in clinic transformation. We have made great strides in all our goals thanks...

While we have always had a very strong residency, our inpatient experience has always been exceptional and our outpatient experience has always been the “left overs”. Over the last few years, we have made great strides, moving our Family Medicine Center onto our hospital campus, instead of a half ho

Ventura County Medical Center (VCMC) applied to the collaborative with an initial goal of evaluating the feasibility of a clinic first model for scheduling and curriculum design.  After the initial meeting in Kansas City we were inspired by some of the great ideas put forth by other programs in the

Central Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency has a long history of using “Clinic as the Driver” to guide our education.  Historically, this has included several areas of improvement including: the creation of clinical teams, a simplification of clinic schedules, a consistent resident half

I became program director in July 2017 and one of my top priorities was to improve our residents’ clinical experience. Too frequently I heard our residents remark about how strong we were in inpatient while stating how much they disliked clinic. They felt like they never knew the patients on their s