Stanford Medical Group (SMG)
SMG NEWS
Please mark your calendars! SMG will be closed the following dates during our Summer Holiday Season :
- Friday, July 3, 2009
- Monday, Sept 7, 2009
Stanford Medical Group (SMG) is an adult primary care clinic offering medical services to patients within the Stanford and surrounding communities. In addition, the group is committed to providing care to those patients receiving specialty care at Stanford Hospital and Clinics.
In collaboration with the Institute for HealthCare Improvement (http://www.ihi.org), SMG continually studies and advances the provision of medical care and participates in the educational development of our physicians in training at Stanford University School of Medicine.
The Resident Clinic at SMG is staffed by physicians training in Internal Medicine at Stanford Hospital School of Medicine under direct supervision of the SMG faculty.
An Internal Medicine trained primary care physician is ...
- the patient's first contact and a provider of comprehensive, continuing care.
- a physician who evaluates and manages all aspects of illness: both biomedical and psycho-social in the whole patient.
- an expert in disease prevention, early detection of disease, and health promotion.
- the patient's guide and advocate in a complex health environment.
- an expert in managing patients with advanced illness and disease of several organ systems who is equally effective in the office and in the hospital.
- a consultant when patients have difficult, undifferentiated problems or when the general internist has special expertise to apply to their problems.
- a resource manager who is familiar with the science of clinical epidemiology and decision making and can bring a thoughtful, lean style of practice to evaluation and management.
- a clinical information manager who can take full advantage of electronicly stored data and can communicate using the tools of modern technology
- a generalist in outlook who also possess special skills that respond to the needs of a particular care environment. American College of Physicians
