Collaboration and Practice Transformation in Residency Education

Webinar: Collaboration and Practice Transformation in Residency Education

The current fee-for-service model of primary care delivery in the United States is outdated and wreaking havoc on the foundation of our healthcare system. This model will be phased out over the next decade in favor of value-based reimbursement (among other changes). Residency programs, however, are often based on the old model of care and, consequently, are not prepared to train residents for the future models of care. In order to address this deficiency, residency-training collaboratives have been popping up around the country. These collaboratives have unique goals and objectives, but are generally sharing best practices, collecting data and outcomes on new training models, coordinating learning sessions, and supporting each other through the development of new curricula for primary care residents. 

Our April 2015 webinar featured members from different regional collaboratives across the country who’ve teamed up to create a “Collaborative of the Collaboratives”. This national collaborative has focused on integrating principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home into residency training programs. Our discussion centered on the importance of practice transformation in residency training and their takeaways from using collaboration to make large-scale change in primary care training. The Primary Care Collaborative partnered with Primary Care Progress to host the webinar. 

William J. Warning II, MD, FAAFP

Program Director, Family Medicine Residency Program, Crozer-Keystone Health System
Dr. Warning is the Program Director of the Crozer-Keystone Family Medicine Residency Program located in suburban Philadelphia, a position he has held since 2000.  He is also the Faculty Chair of the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians (PAFP) Residency Program PCMH Collaborative, the largest Family Medicine Residency collaborative in the country, which he initiated in June 2010 and expanded to include Community Health Centers in June 2011.  He is a speaker both regionally and nationally on PCMH implementation and “true” transformation topics as well as interprofessional team-based care.Dr. Warning is the Lead Physician in one of the first Family Medicine Residencies in the country to achieve Level 3 NCQA PCMH Recognition in April 2009. read more

Dr. Aimee English, MD

Physician , University of Colorado family medicine residency
Dr. Aimee English is a family physician at the University of Colorado family medicine residency.  Having completed residency in 2014, she is currently doing a fellowship in practice transformation.  Within practice transformation efforts, she is particularly interested in patient engagement and management of patients with complex needs.  She hopes to remain in residency education after her fellowship year. read more

Andrew Ellner, MD

Associate Physician, primary care physician, Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Phyllis Jen Center for Primary Care
Dr. Andrew Ellner is an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital and a primary care physician at the Phyllis Jen Center for Primary Care. Previously he served as Assistant Medical Director of the Jen Center. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, and directs the Program in Global Primary Care and Social Change, at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Ellner is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He received an MSc with distinction from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London School of Economics and completed his internship and residency in the Division of General Medicine Primary Care program at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. read more

Bonnie T. Jortberg, PhD, RD, CDE

Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Dr. Jortberg is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (CU-SOM).  She holds a PhD in Human Nutrition, is a Registered Dietitian and a Certified Diabetes Educator.  Dr. Jortberg has been at CU-SOM since 1995, starting in the Department of Preventive Medicine as one of the study coordinators for the Diabetes Prevention Program.  She then moved to the Center for Human Nutrition where she was the Program Director for the Colorado Weigh, a community-based weight management program.  Dr. read more

Peter Meyers

Clinical Innovation Content Fellow, Primary Care Progress
Peter is a fourth-year medical student at the University of Minnesota. He recently completed an MPH program focused on health policy.  Peter is interested in the role primary care physicians play in creating, analyzing, and promoting patient-centered health policy at the state and federal level. Peter believes the Clinical Innovation Network is the most exciting element of Primary Care Progress and looks forward to helping further its growth and development. Peter is a fan of ping pong, Back to the Future, primary care, old furniture, photography, Minnesota, The OC, bluegrass, and The Hold Steady. read more
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