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Home Research Research Library Academic Medicine’s Fourth Mission: Building on Community-Oriented Primary Care to Achieve Community-Engaged Health Care Academic Medicine’s Fourth Mission: Building on Community-Oriented Primary Care to Achieve Community-Engaged Health Care 2022 Author(s) Savage Hoggard, Courtney L, Kaufman, Arthur, Michener, J Lloyd, and Phillips, Robert L Topic(s) Role of Primary Care Volume Academic Medicine Source Academic Medicine A 2021 article, “Now is our time to act: Why academic medicine must embrace community collaboration as its fourth mission,” by Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) authors, including AAMC president and CEO Dr. David J. Skorton, offers 2 aims that are highly related: community collaboration and health equity. The AAMC’s call to prioritize community collaboration and health equity as pillars of the academic medicine mission echo earlier work on community-oriented primary care (COPC) and an even more robust model that builds on COPC, community-engaged health care (CEHC). COPC is a tested, systematic approach to health care by which a health clinic or system collaborates with a community to reshape priorities and services based on assessed health needs and determinants of health. COPC affirms health inequities’ socioeconomic and political roots, emphasizing health care as a relationship, not a transaction or commodity. Communities where COPC is implemented often see reductions in health inequities, especially those related to socioeconomic, structural, and environmental factors. COPC was the foundation on which community health centers were built, and early models had demonstrable effects on community health and engagement. Several academic health centers build on COPC to achieve CEHC. In CEHC, primary care remains critical, but more of the academic health center’s functions are pulled into community engagement and trust building. Thus, the AAMC has described and embraced a care and training model for which there are good, longitudinal examples among medical schools and teaching hospitals. Spreading CEHC and aligning the Community Health Needs Assessment requirements of academic health centers with the fourth mission could go a long way to improving equity, building trust, and repairing the social contract for health care. Read More ABFM Research Read all 2023 Accounting for Social Risks in Medicare and Medicaid Payments Go to Accounting for Social Risks in Medicare and Medicaid Payments 2015 Graduates of Teaching Health Centers Are More Likely to Enter Practice in the Primary Care Safety Net Go to Graduates of Teaching Health Centers Are More Likely to Enter Practice in the Primary Care Safety Net 2013 Historic Growth Rates Vary Widely Across the Primary Care Physician Disciplines Go to Historic Growth Rates Vary Widely Across the Primary Care Physician Disciplines 2021 A Cross-Sectional Study of Factors Associated With Pediatric Scope of Care in Family Medicine Go to A Cross-Sectional Study of Factors Associated With Pediatric Scope of Care in Family Medicine
Author(s) Savage Hoggard, Courtney L, Kaufman, Arthur, Michener, J Lloyd, and Phillips, Robert L Topic(s) Role of Primary Care Volume Academic Medicine Source Academic Medicine
ABFM Research Read all 2023 Accounting for Social Risks in Medicare and Medicaid Payments Go to Accounting for Social Risks in Medicare and Medicaid Payments 2015 Graduates of Teaching Health Centers Are More Likely to Enter Practice in the Primary Care Safety Net Go to Graduates of Teaching Health Centers Are More Likely to Enter Practice in the Primary Care Safety Net 2013 Historic Growth Rates Vary Widely Across the Primary Care Physician Disciplines Go to Historic Growth Rates Vary Widely Across the Primary Care Physician Disciplines 2021 A Cross-Sectional Study of Factors Associated With Pediatric Scope of Care in Family Medicine Go to A Cross-Sectional Study of Factors Associated With Pediatric Scope of Care in Family Medicine
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