title: Part-time practice in an HMO.
abstract: Part-time practice--practicing fewer clinical work hours than one's HMO norm--is common at Harvard Community Health Plan. Physicians choose part-time practice for diverse reasons: to allow time for other professional activities, such as management or teaching, to facilitate their lives as working mothers, or to ease their work lives. A great potential for difficulties with practice management exists when physician colleagues who devote different proportions of their time to clinical practice collaborate. This can be resolved by a facilitated approach that allows team members to identify problems and generate their own solutions.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Community Health Plan, Wellesley, MA 02181.
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Packer
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine; D008019:Life Style; D008404:Massachusetts; D009035:Mothers; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010822:Physicians, Women; D000078329:Workforce