Osler Primary Care Track
The Osler Primary Care Track trains physicians to practice primary care at the highest level and to improve the conditions under which it is practiced. Residents enter through one of two concentrations:
Urban Health or Primary Care Leadership (See below)
The Primary Care Leadership Concentration of the Osler Primary Care Track
A healthier population requires a stronger primary care system. The Primary Care Leadership Concentration (PCL) combines the rigorous clinical training of the Osler Medical Residency with individualized preparation in the disciplines needed to advance the landscape of primary care.
We seek medical students who want to shape the future of primary care through health policy, health services research, care-delivery innovation, health technology, and organizational leadership.
Our graduates will build careers in academic medicine, government, health systems, research, startups, industry, and payer organizations including state Medicaid programs. What unites them is not where they work, but what they are working to change.
What Sets Our Program Apart
The Primary Care Leadership Concentration is designed to produce graduates who advance the redesign of primary care. In addition to the rigorous training of the Osler program, our residents experience targeted mentorship, a thoughtful longitudinal curriculum, and customized elective experiences that build a foundation upon which they will be prepared to change how primary care works.
- Why Hopkins? Our location in Baltimore places PCL residents at the intersection of academic medicine, healthcare delivery, and federal health policy, with unusual access to CMS and the broader Washington health-policy ecosystem. Further, Maryland is the only state in the country that sets its own hospital rates, which is an arrangement with the federal government since the 1970s. That arrangement is now being renegotiated, and a new Medicaid Advanced Primary Care Program is being built alongside it. Our residents will train inside this transition rather than reading about it afterward.
- Clinical Training Sites. In addition to their primary longitudinal clinic, residents have an opportunity to have a second longitudinal practice in a setting of their choice, such as Johns Hopkins General Internal Medicine at Green Spring Station, Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, or one of the dozens of innovative primary care practices in our community.
- Curriculum. Our curriculum provides the backbone necessary to position graduates for various leadership roles after graduation. Domains will include payment and finance; health policy and advocacy; practice operations and redesign; data science, informatics and AI; population health; leadership and change management; scholarship and dissemination; and entrepreneurship and innovation. Our residents leverage our local resources including the Carey Business School, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Armstrong Institute for Quality and Safety, Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures, Baltimore City Health Department, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, among many others.
- Personalized Experiences. We leverage our networks to provide each Primary Care Leadership resident with high-yield experiences that will help them launch their careers focused on advancing the landscape of primary care.
How to Apply
Applications for The Primary Care Leadership Concentration of the Osler Primary Care Track are accepted through ERAS and positions are offered through the National Resident Matching Program. Those interested in our program should use code 1242140M1 when applying through ERAS. All PCL applicants should also apply to the categorical IM program. For any questions, contact Dr. Christine Krueger, Director of the Primary Care Leadership Concentration, [email protected].
FAQs
-
Primary Care Leadership residents complete the same inpatient and subspecialty training as every other Osler resident. The clinical bar is identical; the people who redesign primary care should excel at the bedside.
What differs is what sits alongside it. Residents in this concentration carry a second longitudinal practice in a setting of their choosing, take approximately five months of directed elective time built around payment, policy, operations, data, technology and innovation, and work with a mentorship team that includes a leader outside Hopkins in the area they intend to move.
The concentration also has its own NRMP code and is ranked separately from the categorical program.
-
The mission of the Urban Health Primary Care Concentration is to produce physician primary care leaders who provide exceptional primary care in urban, under-resourced communities and who reduce social inequities in our healthcare system through health promotion, advocacy, and/or research.
The mission of the Primary Care Leadership Concentration is to produce physicians who advance the landscape of primary care regardless of population or setting. PCL is organized around the levers that determine whether primary care works at all: how it is paid for, how it is measured, how it is staffed, what evidence it runs on, and what tools it is built with.
-
Apply through ERAS using code 1242140M1. Positions are offered through the NRMP under a separate code from both the categorical program and the Urban Health Concentration.
You choose your concentration when you apply, not after you match. Each concentration has its own NRMP code and is ranked separately on your rank order list. You may apply to more than one Hopkins internal medicine program, and doing so does not count against you — the same people read all of them.
Program signals in internal medicine are received at the institution level, so a signal to Johns Hopkins reaches all of our internal medicine tracks, including this one.
If you are unsure which concentration fits, apply to the one that matches the career you want and say so in your personal statement. Questions go directly to Christine Krueger at [email protected]. -
This concentration is designed to produce graduates well positioned for policy roles at CMS, CMMI, or a state health department; medical directorship in a payer, ACO, or risk-bearing primary care organization; faculty positions in health services research; clinical or founding leadership in a health technology or primary care company; faculty and research positions in General Internal Medicine at an academic medical center; and ambulatory executive leadership within a health system.
Our graduates may work in an academic practice, a federal agency, a health system, a startup, or a state Medicaid program. What they share is what they are trying to move.
-
It is possible and encouraged. The research done by our residents is most likely to be health services, health policy, implementation science, and health economics as opposed to bench research.