The Shenandoah Valley Family Practice Residency is a three-year program providing doctors with education and practical experience in treating patients of all ages. Those accepted in the Shenandoah Valley Family Practice Residency program learn different approaches to providing patient care.
An article published by a peer-reviewed medical journal, Annals of Family Medicine, discusses the possibility of reducing the transactional functions of physicians and veering toward personalized healthcare to meet the needs of the patients. The article noted that time- and energy-consuming transactional tasks such as data gathering and entry, documentation of care, guideline-based disease management, billing, and even preventive care can get in the way of physicians’ true aspiration: providing individualized care and developing long-term relationships with patients. To make the shift to personalized care possible, changes would need to happen at all levels in medicine, including areas from education to delivery organizations, policies, tools, and payment. Physicians could undergo training and development in personalized care, including oral and written communication skills. Hospitals and other healthcare organizations would need to examine support staffing ratios to accommodate the transactional tasks that would be delegated among medical assistants and other health care personnel.
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AuthorOverseen by Dr. Frank Dennehy, Shenandoah Valley Family Practice Residency Program offers opportunities for students who are interested in family medicine. Archives
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