Spotlight on Chapters - Baylor
The PCP Chapter at Baylor College of Medicine approached PCP originally to establish a Primary Care Innovation Collaborative, a PCP program that pairs faculty with medical students to engage in hands-on clinical innovation projects. They believed this would teach students the skills they would need in the changing face of primary care, and excite students about pursuing primary care careers.
Dr. Rogers, Traci and Brandon presenting about their experience transforming the Baylor Family Practice to a patient-centered medical home.
They set a long-term goal of reforming their school's curriculum to include primary care clinical innovation. Over time, as more and more students get involved with the PCIC, the Baylor PCP Chapter leaders can make a stronger case to their administration for changing the curriculum to include clinical innovation.
It took Chapter leaders several months to meet with potential faculty, select students and match the teams but on January 18, 2012, Baylor's hard efforts paid off. The Chapter paired 9 students with 6 faculty members and held a successful PCIC kick-off meeting where the teams met for the first time. The Chapter leaders will be following the progress of each of these teams and will be meeting with them monthly to share their learnings.
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Baylor's Chapter page for more photos from the kick-off. To learn more about PCICs, visit our
Chapter Resources page.
