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Introduction to Healthcare and Public Health in the US
Delivering Healthcare (Part 2)
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Delivering Healthcare (Part 2)Objectives
• Describe the organization of clinical healthcare delivery in the outpatient setting, and the organization of outpatient healthcare (Lectures a-c)
• Describe the organization of ancillary healthcare delivery in the outpatient setting (Lecture d)
• Discuss the role of different healthcare providers, with an emphasis on the delivery of care in an interdisciplinary setting (Lecture e)
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Where Is Primary Care Delivered?
• Primary care clinic:– Point of delivery– A medical facility
• Usually, the conditions seen at a primary care clinic are not serious or life threatening
• “Gateway” to healthcare services
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Primary Care Medical Specialties
• Family Practice• General Internal Medicine• Pediatrics• Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN)
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Family Practice
• Family Practice (also known as Family medicine): – Provides healthcare for the individual and
family– Integrates biological, clinical and behavioral
sciences– The scope of family medicine is broad
• encompasses all ages, both sexes, each organ system and every disease entity
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General Internal Medicine
• Doctors of internal medicine also known as “internists”
• Focus on adult medicine• Special study and training focusing on the
prevention and treatment of adult diseases.
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Pediatrics
• Is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents
• Focuses on diagnosing, treating and preventing diseases that affect children
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Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Obstetrics – care of women during pregnancy and immediately after childbirth
• Gynecology – care of the female reproductive system
• Women’s health and GYN preventive care are an important facet of primary care
• Often the same clinician provides both OB and GYN services
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Specialty Care
• A specialty is a branch of medicine• After completing medical school, physicians train
in a specific field (their specialty)• Some physicians undergo additional training
(fellowships) after initial training in a more general field
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Examples of Specialties
• Dermatology• Pathology• Radiology• Nuclear Medicine• Psychiatry• Emergency Medicine• Preventive Medicine
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Specialty clinics
• Medical specialties• Examples:
– Cardiology– Immunology– Gastroenterology
• Surgical specialties• Examples:
– Orthopedic surgery– Neurosurgery– Plastic surgery
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Delivery of Specialty Care
• Many surgical specialists see patients in outpatient clinics
• They perform surgeries in hospitals• They may perform surgeries in outpatient
surgical centers
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Outpatient Surgical Centers
• Many surgeries or procedures are done in the hospital
• Some surgeries or procedures are done in outpatient (or ambulatory) surgical centers– Surgery or procedures are performed in a
non-hospital location– Patients typically go home after a brief period
of recovery (few hours), following the procedure /surgery
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Primary Care In Crisis?
• Increasing number of older patients with complex medical issues
• Imperfect coverage of preventive care services• Emphasis on documentation• Complex billing and compensation system
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Primary Care In Crisis?
• Decreasing number of physicians practicing primary care
• Supply-demand imbalance• Greater dependence on after-hours care• Increased cost of healthcare delivery
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Why is Primary Care In Crisis?
• Fewer US graduates enter family medicine• Only a minority of first year internal medicine
residents pursue careers in primary care• More than 80 percent of graduating medical
students carry educational debt• Specialists are better compensated than primary
care physicians
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Why Don’t Physicians Want To Go Into Primary Care?
• A 2007 survey of graduating US medical students: only 2% planned a career in general internal medicine
• Debt not as much of a negative factor as the challenge of treating elderly and chronically ill patients with complex medical issues
• Practice environment and lifestyle also played a role
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Solving The Primary Care Crisis
• Health reform and federal stimulus funds• Training• Grants for training and educational innovation• International Medical Graduates• Recruitment• Loan forgiveness and other financial
inducements
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Delivering Healthcare (Part 2)Summary – Lecture b
• Primary care locations• Primary care specialties• Outpatient specialty care• The primary care crisis
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Delivering Healthcare (Part 2)References – Lecture b
References• American Board of Family Practice at https://www.theabfm.org/about/policy.aspx• http://www.acponline.org/patients_families/about_internal_medicine/• https://www.aamc.org/students/medstudents/cim/specialties/• Bodenheimer T. Primary Care -- Will It Survive? N Engl J Med 2006 355: 861-864 • http://www.acponline.org/advocacy/events/state_of_healthcare/statehc06_1.pdf• Karen E. Hauer, MD; Steven J. Durning, MD; et al., KE; Durning, SJ; Kernan, WN; Fagan, MJ; Mintz, M;
O'Sullivan, PS; Battistone, M; Defer, T et al. (2008-09-10). "Factors Associated With Medical Students' Career Choices Regarding Internal Medicine". JAMA 300 (10): 1154–1164
• http://www.us-government-grants.net/article_info.php/articles_id/15• http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/jun/16/health-reform-grants-expected-to-ease-primary/
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