Dr. Paul Thomas MD Discusses Personal Branding for Growing Your Medical Practice

Personal Branding for Direct Primary Care and Direct Speciality Care Doctors

Personal branding is such a huge topic for direct primary care doctors and perhaps even more important for direct specialty care doctors. With personal branding, a physician is demonstrating their value to the community by consistently communicating their character to their audience. There are several mediums to communicate your value and leveraging social media platforms or interacting with the media can be powerful ways to build your personal brand.

In this video, I give doctors 8 simple steps to start building their personal brand. If you love this content, you can read more in our book or take our course on personal branding, found here.

Eight Simple steps to build your personal Brand

1. Understand that you are your personal brand - you can demonstrate that you’re there to help people in your community.

2. Get professional head shots - these can make a huge difference in attracting new patients to your practice. Get photos in your office and in your community.

3. Take any speaking engagement you can get - speak to school students, adults in the community, at libraries, at pitch competitions and beyond.

4. Share about these speaking engagements on your social media channels.

5. Share about these speaking engagements on your blog - this will help you reach a broader audience and improve your search engine optimization.

6. Demonstrate that you’re an expert in your field - show people how you’re making people’s lives better by sewing up a laceration or improving their health in a tangible way.

7. Reach out to the media and tell them what you do - you should send out a press release to the media each time you take the next step with your business. Most time, you will not hear anything, but when a producer features you, it will be a home run.

8. Repeat - once you do all of the above, you have to do it again. You have to come up with creative ways to engage with your audience. If you do this consistently, you’ll be able to attract more patients to your practice.

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING A DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

How to Hire an Employee for Your Direct Primary Care Practice

How to Hire a Medical Assistant for Your Direct Primary Care Practice

Hiring a medical assistant or an office manage for your direct primary care practice is a huge step. This will free up more of your time to care for patients or work on administrative tasks or grow the business, as you will spend less time collecting vital signs or inventorying medications or other small tasks that you can now delegate to your medical assistant.

I would argue that the most important part of your hiring journey is finding someone that you’re going to work well with. Maybe you worked with an excellent medical assistant or nurse during your residency training and that person is available for hire. Give them a call and ask them if they’d be interested in joining your practice. If so, this will work out well, because you’ve already worked with them and you will have a mutual understanding about expectations.

There are several items you need to check off your list before you hire an employee for your direct primary care practice.

• Find a medical assistant or a nurse that you’re going to work well with

• Invite them to become a part of your practice

• Send them a Medical Assistant Roles and Responsibilities Form (see Startup DPC course on hiring another doctor)

• Invite them to your office to go through what would be expected and offer them a contract if necessary (some states are at will employment states where a contract is not necessary)

• Print federal minimum wage poster

• Print OSHA safety poster

• Get worker's compensation insurance (not required in all states if there are exactly two employees)

  • This typically costs roughly 1% of wages per year

• Create a log for employee injuries

• Update Policies and Procedures document

• Document training for OSHA, blood-borne pathogens, and HIPAA (if clinic is a covered entity)

• Download electronic copies of material safety data sheets (MSDS) for all chemicals used in the workplace

• Create employment contract (see Startup DPC course on hiring another doctor)

• Ensure accounting software can handle payroll (e.g. biweekly direct deposits, W4 form/withholding)

• Ask new employee for anticipated time off in the coming 6 months to 1 year

For our business, we started out with Gusto for payroll services, but the software missed some tax payments. It was more of a nuisance than anything that cost a lot of money or late fees. But the time spent correcting these mistakes was frustrating. Therefore, I contacted my accountant who helped me set up a new payroll system through Run Payroll, and I’ve been very happy with it.

That being said, this will likely be your first time running payroll. Therefore, it will be helpful to reach out to your accountant, who has likely helped hundreds of other businesses set up their payroll software. Take advantage of their expertise and go with what they recommend.

How to Hire a Doctor for Your Direct Primary Care Practice

Doctors who are starting direct primary care practice typically grow to a saturation point - their practice panel is full, but more patients are eager to join. If this is the case for you, check out our course on how to hire a doctor for your direct primary care practice. It will give you the tools you need to hire that second doctor for your DPC practice and the confidence to get the job done!

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING AN DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

Can My Direct Primary Care Practice Succeed in a Rural Area?

Can My Direct Primary Care Practice Succeed in a Rural Area?

Yes! There are several direct primary care doctors who have been successful in rural areas.

One example is Beth Renzulli, MD in Middletown Delaware, and according to the 2010 Census, the population of the town is 18,871. Dr. Renzulli says, “This is the view from my backyard, about 7 miles from my practice. The practice location itself I would describe as small town, but we do serve some of the surrounding rural communities. Well Primary Care, Middletown, DE.”

“This is the view from my backyard, about 7 miles from my practice. The practice location itself I would describe as small town, but we do serve some of the surrounding rural communities. Well Primary Care, Middletown, DE.” - Beth Renzulli, MD

How Many New Patients Will You Get Each Month with a Rural Direct Primary Care Practice?

Another successful direct primary care doctor in a rural community is Noemi Gamel, MD with Culver Pediatrics in Culver, Indiana. Dr. Gamel says, “I just opened in August and I am at 31 patients. So I am not sure about "successful" yet. I live in rural Indiana. 3 miles from the center of a town with a population of 1500. Marshall County has a population of 50,000. My clinic is the front part of my house. My neighbors are soybean fields, corn fields, and cows. I LOVE being a small town rural pediatrician!”

In my opinion, 31 patients in under 3 months is good growth. Netting roughly 10 patients each month puts your DPC practice at 100 patients in 10 months and 120 patients in 1 year. Typically doctors reach a break even point on their overhead at 60 patients to 100 patients, depending on their overhead of course. Usually DPC doctors can start taking a modest salary at 150 to 200 patients, and usually direct primary care doctors are full at 500 patients.

The first year is the most difficult year in that you are establishing your personal brand and identity in the community. After the first year and the first 100 patients served in your practice, you will start to see a snowball effect. This is especially true if you deliver excellent care and service.

Next up is Dr. Joel Schumacher with Schumacher Family Medicine in Plymouth Indiana. Here’s what he had to say about being a small town direct primary care doctor:

Texting a patient from my front porch (view this AM attached). what makes rural/small town DPC awesome is what makes it awesome anywhere- relationship. People are craving for a doctor that has time to know them and care. DPC allows us to return to that in a sustainable way. Many of my older patients remark how much it reminds them of their doctor as a kid 50-70 years ago.

I agree with Dr. Schumacher - people in our communities are craving a relationship with their doctor in which the doctor has time to know them and care for them.

View from Dr. Joel Schumacher’s porch. He’s a successful direct primary care doctor in a rural area.

Can a Rural Direct Primary Care Practice Succeed?

There are several other successful direct primary care doctors in rural areas. Here’s a short list:

• Dr. Deborah Sutcliffe with Red Bluff Family Medicine in Red Bluff, California. She says that she has about 400 patients in “cow and orchard country in far Northern California”

• Dr. Lara Briseno Kenny with Leeton Medical in Leeton, Missouri. She says “Define successful. I am paying my bills and happy again so I've made it! I have 92 patients and my goal is 200 to 300. The town my office is in is ~500. I love it.”

• Dr. Rob Rosborough with Township Health DPC in Silverton, Oregon. He says “3 1/2 years in a town of 10k.. Currently have over 1000 pts. Wait list is growing fast.”

• Dr. Justin Abbott with Abbott Family Medicine in Salina, Utah. He says “Abbott Family Medicine, Salina Utah population 2000, about 20k in a 60 mile radius.... between small employers and the public about 600 patients..... open 2 years, Absolutely love it!!!!”

I could go on, but I’ll stop here for the moment.

The beauty of the direct primary care model is that if you are a solo doctor starting a practice in a rural community, you only need 100 to 200 patients to be sustainable, 200 to 300 patients to earn a decent salary, and 400 to 500 patients to be very profitable.

The other nice thing about having a rural practice is that you will likely have a low rent for your office space and a low rate for your malpractice insurance. These two factors will help you have a lower overhead overall, and therefore you will more easily reach a sustainable practice and a profitable practice.

As with many things in the direct primary care world, you define your own success!

Best of luck on your journey, thank you for reading, and have a wonderful day,

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING AN DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

How do you grow your Direct Primary Care Practice in the First Year?

How do you Grow your Direct Primary Care Practice in the First Year?

This week I got a nice email from someone who purchased our Startup DPC book. Here’s what they had to say:

When you first started out, aside from social media, what do you think is the best way to market to people to gain patients? Which population of patients were you most successful with?

There are so many things that you can do to grow your direct primary care practice in the first year. When it comes to marketing, it’s all about delivering a consistent message through the most powerful channels at your disposal.

For me, I started by leveraging my social media channels, engaging in activities that strengthened my personal and business brand, and leveraged that success and momentum to reach out to journalists and media outlets in my community.

Once the word got out about our affordable and accessible healthcare service in Detroit, the patients followed. Social media channels typically reach a smaller audience, but they can reach a larger audience with a viral post or a post that gets shared several times in the community.

Traditional media outlets can amplify your voice and allow you to reach more people in your community. My strategy is to leverage the small wins, which can build toward bigger wins and bigger media coverage opportunities.

Steps We Took to Grow Our Direct Primary Care Practice in the First Year

Here’s what we did when we first started out to grow our direct primary care practice:

• - social media posts, at least every week

• - blogging; writing thoughtful content on our blog each week, which helped us build our SEO or Search Engine Optimization

• - networking events

• - email list serve with monthly emails, which typically echo our social media posts or blog posts

• - writing a book on DPC https://www.instagram.com/p/BqkM1etA2Q5/

• - speaking at town hall events https://www.instagram.com/p/BqI5T3XA5Hs/

• - partnering with small businesses to take care of their employees

• - reaching out to local media/reporters via email and twitter https://www.instagram.com/p/BoH31kdgrKx/

• - hitting baseballs https://www.instagram.com/p/BnttFXoFjK0/

• - kicking field goals https://www.instagram.com/p/B2u0RgJlZwH/ YES! Kicking field goals helped me build my direct primary care practice - we had patients sign up after I made this post!

• - giving a speech at my local medical college and alma mater https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt2BbdVgjd9/

• - mentoring students https://www.instagram.com/p/BqPt0POAU6t/

• - volunteering as the race doctor for a 5K/10K/Half Marathon https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv9FihBAPg_/

• - sponsoring my soccer team and volunteering with them https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz3qw1Zl_fX/

• - and more!

Frankly, you need to hustle. One of the things I write in my book is “If you’re bored, you’re doing it wrong.”

You need to take advantage of the time that you have to get the word out about your practice. You need to fill your calendar with meetings - meet with business owners, political leaders, teachers, librarians, human resource directors, and others - to teach people about your new and different business.

I teach people how to do this in my book and in my courses, so if you want to take a deeper dive and start using these powerful tools, I show you exactly how to do it in my courses.

Thanks for reading and have a wonderful day,

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC and Plum Health DPC

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HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING AN DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

Startup DPC Book Helps Doctors Start and Grow Their Direct Primary Care Practices

This week, I got a very kind text message from a doctor who is on the verge of starting their direct primary care practice. They mentioned how they loved the business perspective that this book demonstrates - I think this is because doctors aren’t quite sure how to start a business because they’ve never done it before. In this book, I take you step by step through the startup process for your direct primary care practice. I give you the timeline and I break it down into simple pieces. These simple steps will come together to help you create a fulfilling, successful, and sustainable practice.

A kind review for the Startup DPC book from a doctor who is on the verge of starting and growing their direct primary care practice

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING A DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

How this Family Physician Started a Direct Primary Care Practice Straight Out of Residency

How to Start a Direct Primary Care Practice Straight Out of Residency

Many doctors want to start a direct primary care practice straight out of residency. This is a difficult task, so many doctors become intimidated by the amount of work involved and subsequently settle for a job as an employed physician with a large hospital system.

But, it doesn’t have to be this way. There is a step-by-step approach available to doctors who want to start their own direct primary care practices. First, you need to write a business plan for your direct primary care practice. This is crucial so that you understand the numbers involved, like how much it’ll cost to get set up, how much it will cost each month to run your business, how many patients you’ll need, and the average amount of money each patient needs to spend for your business to be sustainable.

Once you have your business plan in hand, you can create a timeline for that business. You will start by laying out a 12-month or 9-month or 6-month road map where you execute all of the tasks that you’ll need to complete to have a successful and thriving direct primary care practice. The great news is that you can complete many of these steps while in residency.

As a resident you can:

• write a business plan

• start building relationships with specialists

• learn as many new skills as you can that will help you deliver excellent medical care for your future patients

• design a website or work with a web designer

• design a logo or work with a logo designer

• come up with your mission, vision, and values for your new clinic

• start developing relationships with vendors like lab vendors, whole-sale medication vendors, and imaging services vendors

• start looking for locations for your new clinic

Simply put, residency is a great time to plan and dream big for your future direct primary care practice because you can start working on it now. I write about this process extensively in my book, Startup DPC: How to Start and Grow Your Direct Primary Care Practice. In the book, I dedicate an entire chapter to what to do in Residency and how to do it, so you’re primed for success in the direct primary care model after graduation.

One of the biggest things you can do during residency is to set up your own elective rotation in direct primary care. I created a Direct Primary Care Elective Rotation Curriculum and I am happy to share it with you here - just drop me an email and I will send you my direct primary care elective rotation curriculum. Please include “Send me the Direct Primary Care Curriculum” in the message for the fastest response possible.

I also dedicate an entire chapter of the book to a detailed timeline of what to do over a 6 month to 12 month period, and how to leverage that time to build up to a successful and thriving direct primary care practice.

I’m writing about this today because I was recently featured on the Health Solutions podcast with Shawn Needham. It was a great conversation and we touch on these subjects in the interview!

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING A DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

Can You Have a Successful Practice and See Five Patients Each Day?

Every day, primary care doctors are running from room to room, having less and less time to spend with their patients. That’s because our current system incentivizes doctors to see more and more patients in less and less time. Doctors lose out because they don’t have enough time to invest in the relationship with patients, and patients lose out because they don’t have enough time to get the excellent medical care that they deserve.

But what if there was a better way?

In this podcast episode hosted by Brent Lacey MD and the Scope of Practice, we explore what it looks like to start and grow a direct primary care practice. In this model, the relationship between doctor and patient is paramount. Therefore, there is a huge emphasis on creating enough time for doctor and patient to spend together, creating enough time and space for the delivery of excellent medical care.

Here’s what the Scope of Practice had to say about it:

Episode 20 – The Direct Primary Care (DPC) model is disrupting the marketplace of the modern healthcare industry.  It’s a good thing too, since the U.S. is projecting a massive shortage of physicians over the next 20 years.  Dr. Paul Thomas has become a national expert in the DPC model, having successfully built his own direct primary care practice over the last few years.

In this model, he sees 5-6 patients a day, makes a middle six-figure salary, and has tremendous patient satisfaction scores.  If that sounds too good to be true, it almost is.  Work less and make good money?  And it’s better for your patients?  And it saves them money too?  No, this is not a scam, this is a phenomenal business model!

Whether you’re interested in direct primary care or not, this episode has got some great information for you!  Dr. Thomas shares his incredible business savvy to help us learn how we can modify our own practice to make more money, have a better lifestyle, and yet still help our patients more!

“Direct primary care is ‘concierge medicine for everyone else.’  It’s a membership model for primary care that makes health care affordable for the average person.”

 – Dr. Paul Thomas

Contact Dr. Thomas:

• Instagram: @PlumHealthDPC https://www.instagram.com/plumhealthdpc/

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/plumhealthdpc

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlumHealthDPC/

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulthomasmd

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING A DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

Dr. Paul Thomas at Hint Summit 2D

Paul Thomas, MD will speak at Hint Summit 2d

On September 25th at 4 pm Eastern Time, Dr. Paul Thomas will be speaking at the Hint Summit 2D and he will be sharing best practices for starting and growing your direct primary care practice. This lecture at Hint Summit 2D will focus on leveraging your personal brand to grow your DPC practice by engaging with social media and by interacting with traditional media outlets.

The Hint Summit 2D is FREE for medical students and residents and has a low cost for practicing physicians and others who are interested in the material. To sign up, check out this link! Here’s what Hint Health has to say about the conference:

Hint Summit is the only event that brings together all members of the DPC ecosystem to inspire innovation and catalyze growth for the modern DPC movement.

If you’re a person living in Detroit or Metro Detroit, and you’d like to have a direct primary care doctor for yourself, your family, or your business, please check out services at Plum Health DPC by clicking through to www.PlumHealthDPC.com.

Dr. Paul Thomas of Plum Health DPC and Startup DPC will be speaking at the Hint Summit 2D on September 25th at 4 pm Eastern Time - mark your calendars!

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING A DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

Speakers at Hint Summit 2D include Paul Thomas, MD; Delicia Haynes, MD; Rachel Knox, MD, MBA; Cristin Dickerson, MD; David Slepak; Fay Rotenberg; and Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH.

Speakers at Hint Summit 2D include Zubin Damania, MD aka ZDoggMD, Marilyn Bartlett, CPA; Marty Makary, MD; Zak Holdsworth; Julie Gunther, MD; and Rushika Fernandopulle, MD.

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How Many Patients Does a Typical Direct Primary Care Doctor Attract in the First Year?

This week, I wanted to highlight the success of one of my Direct Primary Care colleagues, Dr. Kym Moyer. She launched her practice about seven months ago, called Magnolia Family Medicine in Gallatin or suburban Nashville Tennessee. This week, she celebrated attracting 100 patients in 1 year - break out the champagne Dr. Moyer, this is an excellent achievement!

Here’s what Dr. Kym Moyer had to say about the journey:

7 months ago Magnolia Family Medicine opened its doors. I opened in a town population of 42K in the middle of an already well-established medical community, knowing no one. Population estimate of only 10% without health insurance and I consider it a fast growing community. I opened with a 1 room office spending a total of 5K in start up expenses. 

Last Friday we celebrated the 100th sign up at the 7 month mark. The pace has been steady and very doable without help. Looking back I’m so glad I decided DPC out of residency. Being a business owner gives me more control over the time I get to spend with my patients, and more importantly my family. 

I attribute a lot of my success to the other physicians in this group who have shared their tips, stories and recommendations along the way. Thank you! 

If you’re considering DPC....JUMP! You can do it! 

My tip: getting involved with the chamber and other various business networking groups before I opened was how I ultimately gained momentum in the beginning for patient referrals. Facebook has also been the best advertising for me.

How Many Patients Does a Typical Direct Primary Care Doctor Attract in the First Year?

The typical direct primary care doctor attracts roughly 100 patients in the first year, so Dr. Kym Moyer’s growth is remarkable. There’s a huge learning curve for doctors when it comes to branding and marketing a practice, and I think Dr. Moyer is successful because she’s been able to develop a clean and easy-to-understand brand and business.

Take a look at the Magnolia Family Medicine website and see why she’s been successful - there’s a clear offer, a clear benefit, simple pricing, and an excellent video that gets to the heart of why Dr. Moyer does what she does. It’s clear and compelling and you can see why Dr. Moyer is outpacing the typical DPC doctor.

So thank you Dr. Moyer for following your passion and serving your community with excellent primary care services - it’s a great example of what success looks like in this DPC model. And here’s to your next 100 patients!

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING A DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC

Praise for Startup DPC - the book that helps doctors start and grow their direct primary care practices

Over the last 2 weeks, we’ve gotten some great reviews for Startup DPC book - the book that helps aspiring direct primary care doctors start and grow their DPC practices. Check out what they had to say!

5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource!

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2020I cannot imagine starting my DPC clinic without this book. Simple yet robust content with all necessary information needed to be confident in this process. Excellent job Dr. Thomas!

Terri A Bowland

5.0 out of 5 stars Going DPC? Buy this book!

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2020Verified PurchaseQuick, easy read but very informative. Buy hard copy to keep track of some lists of things to do. Thank you Dr. Paul!

Paige

5.0 out of 5 stars Continue reading if you need a little inspiration in your life!

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2020I read this book this weekend on our road trip. I learned so much, and feel inspired! Instead of asking how can I fit into that job or that job? I’m asking how can I share who I am with my community through this model? It also breaks down the nuts and bolts in a way that makes it feel doable. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience.

HOW CAN I LEARN MORE ABOUT STARTING A DIRECT PRIMARY CARE PRACTICE?

If you enjoyed reading this blog post and if you want to learn more about starting and growing your direct primary care practice, look no further than our book and our courses on how to start and grow your direct primary care practice. We at Startup DPC have begun compiling some of the best content available on this blog, in our book, and in our courses.

The best place to start is to take our Direct Primary Care Business Plan course, available here. From there, you can learn how to attract new patients to your direct primary care practice and how to find the perfect location or build out the practice of your dreams.

Thanks for reading and watching, and best of luck in your direct primary care journey!

-Dr. Paul Thomas with Startup DPC