Despite hospital systems and health officials calling out the need for more primary care doctors, graduates of U.S. medical schools are becoming less likely to choose to specialize in one of those ...

The Primary Care Track is a four-year MD program for students interested in primary care careers. Based at the Tuscaloosa Regional Medical Campus, the Primary Care Track provides students with a ...

What Is a General Practitioner? A general practitioner focuses on your overall physical and mental health. They're often also called family doctors or internists, but there is a slight difference.

Nearly three years ago, we began training as primary care doctors in two residency programs at a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital. We understood the value of longitudinal patient-doctor ...

If saving a life is the most valuable thing a doctor can do, surely the physicians who save the most lives would garner the most esteem, right? Right? In most professions, the pecking order is clear, ...

For more than 25 years, Dr. Tony Wu has been part of the primary care team at Brown Physicians. "My focus in my practice is primary care for men," said Wu, who was recently named one of five top ...

Patients in Geneva now have a new option for primary care as Rochester Regional Health expands services at its medical campus. Rochester Regional Health announced Dec. 23 that Dr. Samuel Urrutia has ...

Integrating methadone treatment into primary care settings improves adherence to guideline-concordant health care for opioid ...

A new UW Medicine program helps train primary care providers like doctors and nurse practitioners to help with patients' ...

Methadone treatment for opioid addiction in the US evokes an image of people lined up at a special clinic at 6 am. Other countries, backed by data, provide it through primary care.

American primary-care doctors can prescribe methadone for pain—but not for addiction. Meanwhile, their counterparts in ...