Full Description
Practical Primary Care provides the fundamentals that help clinicians thrive once they enter the real world of medical practice. These essentials move beyond family medicine, supplying those skills and tools to help run a practice effectively and that help to positively influence every patient interaction. These areas include strategies around office management, change management, patient management, and clinician management, all discussed in a clear, concrete, and accurate manner. It is a practical guide for all primary care providers, particularly those early in their career, to help them establish an efficient and effective medical practice.
This text contains curated information covering these foundational concepts in one resource, and covers essential subject matters such as:
Quality Improvement
Motivating Change in Patients
Advanced Access Scheduling
Optimizing Use of your EMR
Practical Dietary Advice
Practical Exercise Advice
Foundations of Sleep
Smoking Cessation
Positive Psychology
Critical Thinking
Appropriate Testing and Screening
Vaccine Promotion
Practical Primary Care is a valuable resource aiming to help clinicians improve the care they provide, by addressing the systems and the fundamentals that have the biggest impact on the health of their patients and their practice itself.
Contents
Section I Change Management Strategies.- 1 Quality Improvement for your Office.- 2 Motivating Change in Patients.- Section II Office Management Strategies.- 3 Advanced Access Scheduling.- 4 Optimizing the Use of your EMR.- Section III Patient Management Strategies.- 5 Diet.- 6 Exercise.- 7 Sleep.- 8 Smoking Cessation.- 9 Positive Psychology.- Section IV Physician Management Strategies.- 10 Rational Prescribing.- 11 Appropriate Testing and Screening.- 12 Vaccine Prevention.
