Residents Embrace DPC Practice Model, Tackle Student Debt - AAFP.org

August 13, 2014 07:28 pm Michael Laff Kansas City, Mo. – Medical residents actively debated a wide range of issues during the 2014 AAFP National Congress of Family Medicine Residents here Aug. 7-9, including enhancing education about the direct primary care (DPC) model of practice, relieving medical school debt and increasing support for rural medicine were among the major issues residents addressed. The congress met during this year's National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students.

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"As residents, the training we get in business models in general varies from program to program," said Charla Allen, M.D., of Texas Tech Family Medicine at Lubbock, a co-author of both resolutions. "We believe a toolkit that would help residents coming out of residency would be very beneficial."

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