The Stoeckle Center works with primary care practices, physicians, and patients at MGH and elsewhere to test innovative ideas to improve the delivery of primary care.
Our Primary Care Research
Current Stoeckle Center research initiatives focus on evaluating educational programs, tools, and interventions to identify best clinical practices and the most effective ways to involve patients and families in shared decision-making. We are
Advance Care Planning Initiative
Advance care planning is an aspect of care that is highly important to patients, families, clinicians and health care systems. In addition, it greatly affects the quality and cost of care that a person experiences at the end of life.
Ambulatory Practice of the Future
The Ambulatory Practice of the Future (APF) is an innovative new primary care clinic that will open in 2010 adjacent to the Massachusetts General Hospital.
An Evidence-based Method for Patient-centered Interviewing
The Stoeckle Center has created a series of interactive, skills-based workshops to improve the communication skills of our clinicians.
CAHPS
CAHPS is a family of surveys that ask patients to evaluate the interpersonal aspects of health care.
Development of a Comprehensive Guide to Pediatric Practices
The Stoeckle Center is developing a comprehensive guidebook for parents and care givers of our pediatric primary care patients.
General Medicine Mentoring Program
The General Medicine Mentoring Program is a formal system of mentorship and career support to maximize the potential and career satisfaction of each faculty member.
Integrating Pharmacists Into Primary Care Practices
Improving clinician and practice staff work-life by integrating clinical pharmacists into the primary care setting.
Literature and Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Healthcare
Literature and Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Healthcare is a six-month long program offered to members of the primary care community at Mass General.
Patient Experience of Care Improvement
Enhancing both the physician-patient relationship and the physician experience through innovation.
Shared Decision-Making
Improving patient and family participation in decision-making in primary care
ACCORD
The Ambulatory Care Compact to Organize Risk and Decision-Making (ACCORD) is the development of a health information technology system to facilitate doctor-patient communication and shared-decision-making.
Kaiser Scholars
This web site contains a brief professional history of those who participated in the faculty scholar program established by the Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation in the 1980s. The program is described in the September and October 2009 issues of SGIM's monthly Forum.
