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The Primary Care Metabolic Group (PCMG) is a national educational initiative providing comprehensive metabolic disease education. PCMG’s mission is to provide a representative forum for primary care clinicians involved in metabolic disease management and raise standards of patient care through the dissemination of best practices, education programs, and communication among members.
Therapeutic areas covered by PCMG include:
- Diabetes
- Thyroid Disease
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Obesity
- Osteoporosis
- Co-morbidities of metabolic disease including cardiovascular disease
Benefits of membership include:
- Access to the PCMG website that includes up-to-date information on diabetes management including organizational activities, medical developments, relevant article highlights and commentaries, case studies and meeting information;
- A forum where Primary Care colleagues can discuss medical issues specifically related to metabolic diseases;
- Opportunities for FREE CME
NEW Commentary: Group Visits and Diabetes
10/26/10: Traditional one to one office visits are not working for over 50% of diabetic patients. Additional strategies like group visits are needed to help overcome these barriers and help more people achieve goal. Multiple studies indicate that group visits increase goal achievement, patient, and provider satisfaction and create significant short term and long term cost savings. Group visits are reimbursed similar to an office visit and can be income positive. The following information and suggestions are about: planning and conducting group visits; patient and clinician views about group visits and lessons learned from my 10 year experience of conducting group visits. Read More
Commentary: Diabetes Quality Markers and Office Re-design
9/30/10: So…Where do we go from here? It seems like every day we have more regulations, more insurance pre-authorizations, less control, more demands, more patients, less reimbursement, less joy. How do we find what it takes to dig us out of the current morass that is primary care? How do we revitalize ourselves, meet the challenges for today and build a sustainable future for ourselves and our children? And what about those pesky diabetes quality markers? How do we fit them in to the picture? Read More
Journal of Family Practice Supplement
Distinguishing Among the Incretin-based Therapies, September 2010
Ask the Expert Medscape Series on Basal Bolus Therapy
Over the past several months, Primary Care Metabolic Group and Primary Care Education Consortium have partnered with Medscape to provide an educational "Ask the Experts" series on basal bolus therapy. The series includes four educational columns as well as over a dozen Q&As between Medscape readers and the faculty author experts on basal bolus insulin. Take a moment to check it out so you can better understand how to initiate and intensive basal bolus therapy in your patients with diabetes. Read More
Article from the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine!
Effectiveness of Cinnamon for Lowering Hemoglobin A1C in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized, Controlled Trial. Paul Crawford, MD. September-October 22 (5): 507-512 (2009) © Journal of The American Board Of Family Medicine. Posted with permission from the Journal of The American Board Of Family Medicine.
