ACORN Home Page (Primary care research at VCU: validating primary care as a specialty)
Benchmarking the Future Generalist Workforce from the ACP (studies on primary care have been ongoing for more than 20 years, yet it is only given lip service in the new legislation)
Future of Family Medicine (A new model based on a medical home)
US primary care system on verge of collapse (It is too bad that useful studies like this tend to be published outside the U.S.)
U.S. Doctors Unable to Provide Patients Access (Commonwealth Fund Nov 2006 - book mark this fund for future studies)

Does it matter How Many Doctors?
The Nation's Physician Workforce: Options for Balancing Supply and Requirements -IOM 1996 (Do politicians ever listen to th IOM?)
So Much to Do, So Little Time:Physician Capacity Constraints, 1997-2001
(Click on "where does all the time go")
Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs, MUAs, MUPs)
Nurse Practitioner

The Private Sector in the U.K. Health System
Primary care trusts and primary care research (UK Version of ACORN, has been ongoing for at least 30 years.)
The Commissioning (The UK framework for regional practice groups. Do you think this would be good for the US?)Note: The Kings Trust would be a useful bookmark for comparion with the RWJF. They both have similar purposes in two different countries.

Views from the OECD
Primary Health Care Strategy ( New Zealand MOH)
Renewing Primary Health Care (British Columbia, Canada - MOH - Look at the executive summary of the primary care charter. Should something similar been added to our new health care legislation?)

EPID 600 - Introduction to Public Health Practice - Summer 2016

URLs for Primary Care