Donna M. Tuccero, M.D.: Duke Family Medicine residents complete three-week intensive orientation
Last month, the Division of Family Medicine welcomed new residents. The 2015-2016 academic year is a milestone for us as we increase our program size from four first-year resident positions to a fifth placement.
Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, M.D.: Family medicine residents honored at June graduation
On June 13, the Duke Family Medicine Residency Program celebrated its 2015 family medicine graduates, and also highlighted that the Duke Family Medicine Residency graduated its first class 40 years ago. And we were honored with a visit by the residency’s first program director, Lyndon Jordan, M.D.
Sharon Hull, MD, MPH: Duke Family Medicine Center achieves NCQA Level 3 Recognition as Patient-Centered Medical Home
On May 15, Duke Family Medicine Center received notice that we had been recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) as a Level 3 Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) through May 13, 2018. This is the highest level recognition by the NCQA, and it is a designation that our practice has maintained continuously since 2008.
Donna Tuccero, M.D.: Duke Family Medicine welcomes residency and education chiefs to new roles
Now that spring has arrived, Duke Family Medicine Residency is preparing for a transition. Our new residency chief, Josh Lancaster, M.D., and education chief, Vanessa Solomon, DO, are learning their roles from their outgoing mentors and will bring their own talents to share.
Sharon Hull, M.D., MPH: Division of Family Medicine thankful for gift from former chief Samuel ‘Woody’ Warburton, Jr.
It is my privilege today to use this venue to say “thank you” for a gift our division has received from one of its veteran supporters and leaders, Samuel “Woody” Warburton, Jr., M.D., and his family. The Warburtons have provided an endowment to the Division of Family Medicine through the creation of a trust, which will be managed by Duke University.
Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, M.D.: Duke Family Medicine’s work toward improving population health recognized at national conference
A few months ago when our residency program was ranked number three by U.S. News & World Report, I developed a sense of both pride and of significant responsibility to work my hardest to make sure that the ranking holds true, not just in the perceptions of those surveyed by the organization, but also in the product of our residency.
Sharon Hull, MD, MPH: A local perspective on the family medicine residency match
Every year, during the third week of March, medical students from across the United States find out where they will go to complete residency training in a specialty of their choosing. Residency programs, including Duke Family Medicine, find out who will be entering training in their institutions.
Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, M.D.: Recruiting present and future leaders: Celebrating Duke Family Medicine’s Match Day results
It was that time of the year. Match Day was approaching, and some nights I would lie awake, wondering who our new interns would be. I would think of the outstanding young men and women we interviewed this recruiting season for the Duke Family Medicine Residency Program.
Resident Roundup: Farhad Modarai, DO
In many ways, the business world knows more about our patients than we do as health care providers. Businesses know what kind of food their customers buy, how often they fill their prescriptions, their spending patterns, and can often even predict what they will need based on analyzing this data.
Sharon Hull, MD, MPH: Measles vaccination: Individual choice or social responsibility?
So many of us in primary care now work at the juncture of individual, one-on-one patient care and the care of populations and communities that we are acutely aware of the very real issues that happen along that interface. News headlines from the past few months offer an example that many of us must address each day we are in clinic.