Cheers to Harvard for Launching a $30 Million Center for Primary Care

 

 

Dear Editor of the AAFP News,

 

Cheers to Harvard School of Medicine for launching a $30 Million Center for Primary Care with Explicit Support for Family Medicine! 

Today, it is better to build a “center of excellence geared toward transforming primary care education, research and delivery systems,” than to maintain a primary care division teaching the conventional knowledge and experiences on mostly “illness and suffering” service research.  

Community-oriented primary care family medicine (COPCFM) research out of the hospital emergency rooms and offices needs a new US National Institute of Health focused in the study and transformation of research on family medicine. This is not only the most general and social medical specialty, but also the specialty with the most potential impact in a country health and global health of today.

The preventive COPCFM research should be more focused on the humane quality and length of life support systems out of the present biomedical and public health systems. It should balance more COPCFM research on main medical and health humane goals, primary living and health care, life quality and length; expanding COPCFM scientific research methods, with a broader clinical method for patient prevention, diagnosis, healing and treatment, and a more dynamic lifelong health maintenance investigation semiology and nosology; enhancing the scientific critical, creative thinking, innovation, invention and discovery, widening the COPCFM integrative spaces research programs; integrating to the last 200 years’ advances of scientific medicine, the best scientifically verified principles and methods of the old natural, complementary and alternative medicine over the basis of a broad integration research program;  examining the harder-core COPCFM scientific research foundations, with all the unconventional underlying philosophical problems, reordering the core general concepts and basis,  and harmonizing the analytic-reductionist and systemic-integrative approaches, through a meta-research program.

In 1980, I suggested the Cuban government the creation of a research institute for the COPC general practice problems. Responding to the call of the WHO/PAHO, I resigned in the Cuban Cancer Institute and went to work in staffs of two Health Community Centers, “Plaza” 1990-1994, and “Vedado” 2002-2005. There, I supported professors and residents in scientific research, training, and collaboratories with IT of the Cuban 1983-2010 COPCFM program. In 1990, I suggested to the government the building in the Plaza Center of an Institute for COPCFM, and nothing. In 1995-2005, I proposed the government and WHO/PAHO-HQs the Global Health COPCFM Research Line, and to reorganize the National Health Research Plans from the COPCFM centers, and nothing. 

I would like to cooperate with all my possibilities to the success of that Harvard Center in COPCFM research, if possible.

Thank you.

 

Rodolfo J. Stusser, MD, MPH

AAFP International Member

Miami, Fl., USA.

 

 

Reference:

Bein B. Harvard Medical School Launches $30 Million Center for Primary Care. Advisory Group Expresses Explicit Support for Family Medicine. AAFP News Now Nov. 3, 2010. http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/resident-student-focus/20101103hmsprimcarectr.html