Out of the ivory tower: engaging the national dialogue on the patient-centered medical home.

摘要

Popular myth holds that medical school department chairs sit in ivory (or ivy) towers, far from the din of humanity, health, and illness. Nothing could be further from the reality for the vast majority of family medicine chairs and faculty. Although research, education, and scholarly work hold high esteem, there is clear and ever-growing engagement among chairs of family medicine in important clinical areas including opera- tions, patient care, community service, and transformation of practices to meet the needs of our patients and our discipline.