Projects-in-a-Box

Produced by the American Medical Student Association's Generalist Physicians in Training initiative, these modules are designed to educate, provoke interest and help students develop opinions about important, timely issues in primary care medicine. For everyone using these Boxes, we appreciate your interest in helping to disseminate important primary care information to physicians-in-training across the country.

• Academic Medicine and Managed Care: An Uncertain Future details the relationship between managed care organizations, academic medical centers and the funding of medical education.
  
  
• Child Abuse and Neglect gives an overview of how dangerous abuse and neglect are, demonstrating the need for medical students to take a proactive approach towards reporting instances of abuse and neglect.
  
  
• Childhood and Adult Immunizations: A Model for Preventive Health disseminates simple "how-to" steps to ensure basic preventive health practices for both children and adults.
  
  
• Clinical Ethics in a Generalist's Practice discusses the range of medical decisions and challenges faced by generalist physicians.
  
  
• Complementary and Alternative Medicine offers information about a variety of health care alternatives, explaining their value in modern health care and the need for doctors to understand their benefits.
  
  
• Cultural Competency in Medicine outlines the steps that physicians in training and in practice can take to bridge the cultural gaps that may exist between themselves and their patients.
  
  
• The Delivery of Urban vs. Rural Health Care compares the challenges of health care delivery in different underserved settings, providing resources for students interested in obtaining experience in both settings.
  
  
• The Future of International Health: Exporting Primary Care Medicine provides a variety of resources for physicians-in-training who are interested in studying abroad.
  
  
• Guns and Violence explains the dangers of possessing a firearm in the home and the effects of gun violence in society, as well as the role physicians can have in firearm safety.
  
  
• Health Care for the Homeless details the health problems of the homeless, the barriers they face in accessing primary care and the ways in which health care providers can help them.
  
  
• Leadership Skills and Training offers resources to help the physician-in-training develop such leadership skills as problem solving, public speaking and conducting presentations.
  
  
• An Ounce of Prevention focuses on preventive health and includes an overview of the fundamentals of prevention with statistics demonstrating its importance and impact.
  
  
• Physician Supply and Distribution highlights the need for primary care physicians, particularly in underserved areas, giving an overview of the national policies that affect the health care market.
  
  
• Primary Care in the Urban ER discusses the role of the urban emergency department in providing primary health care to inner-city populations.
  
  
• The Primary Care Team gives information on the different members of the interdisciplinary health care team and on how the team approach may improve health care.
  
  
• The Senior Boom is Coming: Are Primary Care Physicians Ready? highlights the population changes that are taking place in America and how medical students can prepare for this generation of patients.
  
  
• Tobacco, Public Health and Primary Care explains the role physicians can have in tobacco control legislation and the effects of tobacco on the health of the community.
  
  
• Women's Health focuses on the delivery of primary care for women and creating an awareness of women's health policy, research and educational issues.