Storylines of family medicine XII: family medicine and the healthcare system

William B Ventres; Leslie A Stone; Jeannette E South-Paul; Kendall M Campbell; Aerial R Petty; Hima Ekanadham; Kurt C Stange; Rebecca S Etz; William L Miller; Robert L Ferrer; Marianna Kong; Thomas Bodenheimer; Roger Strasser; Sharon C M Reece; Joshua Freeman; John M Westfall

doi:10.1136/fmch-2024-002829

Storylines of family medicine XII: family medicine and the healthcare system

Fam Med Community Health. 2024 Apr 12;12(Suppl 3):e002829. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2024-002829.

Authors

William B Ventres¹, Leslie A Stone², Jeannette E South-Paul³, Kendall M Campbell⁴, Aerial R Petty⁵, Hima Ekanadham⁶, Kurt C Stange⁷, Rebecca S Etz⁸, William L Miller^{9

10}, Robert L Ferrer¹¹, Marianna Kong¹², Thomas Bodenheimer¹², Roger Strasser¹³, Sharon C M Reece¹⁴, Joshua Freeman¹⁵, John M Westfall¹⁶

Affiliations

¹ Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA wventres@uams.edu.
² Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
³ Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
⁴ Family Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston School of Medicine, Galveston, Texas, USA.
⁵ Family Medicine Residency Program, New York-Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
⁶ Center for Family and Community Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA.
⁷ Center for Community Health Integration, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
⁸ Family Medicine and Population Health, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
⁹ Family Medicine, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA.
¹⁰ University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA.
¹¹ Family and Community Medicine, UT Health San Antonio Long School of Medicine, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
¹² Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA.
¹³ Northern Ontario School of Medicine University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁴ Family Medicine, Baylor Scott and White Health, Temple, Texas, USA.
¹⁵ Family Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas, USA.
¹⁶ DARTNet Insitute, Aurora, Colorado, USA.

Abstract

Storylines of Family Medicine is a 12-part series of thematically linked mini-essays with accompanying illustrations that explore the many dimensions of family medicine, as interpreted by individual family physicians and medical educators in the USA and elsewhere around the world. In 'XII: Family medicine and the future of the healthcare system', authors address the following themes: 'Leadership in family medicine', 'Becoming an academic family physician', 'Advocare-our call to act', 'The paradox of primary care and three simple rules', 'The quadruple aim-melding the patient and the health system', 'Fit-for-purpose medical workforce', 'Universal healthcare-coverage for all', 'The futures of family medicine' and 'The 100^th essay.' May readers of these essays feel empowered to be part of family medicine's exciting future.

Keywords: Family Medicine; General Practice; Health Care Reform; Health Workforce; Primary Health Care.

MeSH terms

Emotions
Family Practice*
Health Facilities
Humans
Physicians, Family*
Universal Health Care