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ArticleFamily medicine2024

Teaching Population Panel Management: A Patient Outreach Activity in a Family Medicine Clerkship.

Maria Syl de la Cruz, Barbara Cymring, Pooja Padgaonkar, Jennifer K Langley

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Article in Family medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Designing an Effective Ambulatory Medicine Clerkship.Journal of medical education and curricular development
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4 authors.

Maria Syl de la CruzDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.
Barbara CymringDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.
Pooja PadgaonkarDepartment of Family Medicine, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ.
Jennifer K LangleyDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.

Funding

HRSA HHS K02HP30821
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND

objectivesThe delivery of population health education in medical school can be challenging. We developed a patient outreach activity for third-year students to teach them the role of population panel management in primary care.

methodsThe family medicine undergraduate medical education and population health teams collaborated to develop an educational patient outreach toolkit. After an orientation, family medicine clerkship students were assigned to call patients on their faculty adviser's patient panel to discuss care gaps and identify barriers and potential strategies to improve care. After the experience, students completed reflection questions, which we analyzed.

resultsFrom February to August 2022, 82 third-year medical students participated in the patient outreach activity during their 6-week clerkship. Of the 1,235 total attempted calls, 24% of the patients scheduled their appointments afterward. After analyzing the reflective student feedback, we identified six main takeaways, which focused on the importance of population health, the identification of barriers to care, positive and negative feelings that students experienced when making calls, student self-identified areas of growth, and the fragmentation/inefficiency of the health care system.

conclusionsAn opportunity exists to continue to teach students about how to communicate with patients about their health and how to address and improve social determinants of health. This curricular activity can be a step toward efforts to align population health and clinical practice and a way for medical students to add value by educating patients.

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Clinical ClerkshipEducation, Medical, UndergraduateFamily PracticeStudents, MedicalCurriculumHumansPrimary Health Care

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PMID38805636
PMCPMC11280190

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