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Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice (P⁴): Essential Skills for New Family Physicians and How Residency Programs May Provide Them

From the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego

Correspondence: Corresponding author: Joseph E. Scherger, MD, MPH, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, 2658 Del Mar Heights Road, #604, Del Mar, CA 92014 (E-mail: JScherger{at}ucsd.edu)

Family Medicine residency programs must change substantially to prepare for new family physicians a model of practice for the 21st century. This article describes 10 essential skills that are part of a new model of family medicine and the educational changes and resources needed to obtain them. These skills include management of a population of patients, patient-centered care, personal medical home, best knowledge at the point of care, continuous access to multimodal communication, a new platform of care, time intensive visits, group visits, teamwork and interpersonal skills, and financial practice management.

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