It was brought up to me (by the physician who took over my practice, Dan Swartz) that there really needs to be a short 2 week to 4 week curriculum for students or residents who shadow or rotate with DPC Docs. Here are his thoughts:

“Have you ever given thought of putting together a brief curriculum for residents that rotate with a DPC practice? I currently have them read your first book and Purcell’s Pixie Dust. I suspect you probably have a stash of good articles, blogs, etc. This may be helpful for DPCA members. Just came up since another resident will be rotating in Sept. Those two books are awesome discussion starters. The National Actuary report on DPC is good. There are a few commentaries from JAMA that bring up straw man arguments against the model that would be good to critique.”

Here is his list below.

1. Employees pay more out of pocket for health care https://money.cnn.com/…/health-care-insurance-premium…/
2. Why not pay the doctor directly?https://youtu.be/h2QaObLRLi0
3. Society of Actuaries DPC study https://www.soa.org/…/direct-primary-care-eval-model.pdf
4. Qliance study shows monthly-fee primary care model saves 20 percent on claims https://stateofreform.com/…/qliance-study-shows…/
5. The Great Pretender: Syphilis or DINOs by Dr. Doug Farrago https://dpcnews.com/…/the-great-pretender-syphilis-or…/

Others have given me some information.

1. https://atlas.md/dpc-curriculum/topics/
2. https://kennethq.medium.com/a-rebuttal-9ac5eda5c96a
3. https://www.mydpcstory.com/post/episode-30-dr-jack-forbush-of-the-osteopathic-center-for-family-medicine-hampden-me
4. Read David Goldhill’s book “Catastrophic Care: Why everything we think we know about healthcare is wrong.”
5. This is a part of an interview I did with the Docs 4 Patient Care Foundation where Vance Lassey talks about what DPC did for him, his patients, his family, and the underserved in his community (1 min 41 sec).
6. Great journalistic piece on DPC featuring interviews with many of my good friends and DPC colleagues around the country, and heavily featuring Ryan Neuhofel from NeuCare in Lawrence, KS (6 min 10 sec).
7. Why is medical care so expensive? This short piece from Adam Ruins Everything is very good (5 min 32 sec).
8. Here is an example of how the free market can save everybody a TON even on expensive things. It’s a look at the Surgery Center of Oklahoma (6 min 41 sec.
9. Here is a motivational talk about DPC where Vance Lassey gave 2019 DPC Summit in Chicago (50 min).  This is probably my favorite of all these links.
10. Here is a video of a talk Vance did with the brilliant Dr. Tomsen at the DPC Summit in ’19 about broadening scope. (59 min). They did another updated one more recently
11. Farrago’s keynote talk https://dpcnews.com/dpc-motivational-tip-of-the-day/direct-primary-care-the-heros-journey/

Does anyone else have some stuff they want to share with other DPC docs who have students/residents rotate with them? I will collect and share on our website. And also donate anything to the the DPC Alliance if they want it.

I HIGHLY recommend you look through the channels and see if any articles pop out that are good for students.

Let’s keep building this together.