The Coastal Research Group, through its National Projects on the Outcomes of Family Medicine Residency Training and the Community Impact of Family Medicine Residency Programs, is monitoring the practice sites over time of a sample of 2005 through 2010 family medicine residency graduates. A preliminary presentation on early returns of the study was presented at [...]
Continue reading...17. May 2010
The National Project on the Outcomes of Family Medicine Residency Training is a joint initiative of the National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access and the Coastal Research Group’s Research and Data Base Management Committee and Policy Analysis Committee. The National Project seeks to characterize the impact that family medicine residencies have had on the [...]
Continue reading...28. November 2009
[Editorial note: the leadoff panel at the Twenty-first National Conference on Primary Health Care Access will be moderated by and joined by Doctor Joshua Freeman on the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City. Recently, he posted this analysis of issues regarding the current health care reform legislation in Congress. Participants in the upcoming National [...]
Continue reading...24. October 2009
At the Twentieth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access in Monterey, California in April, 2008, Doctor Joshua Freeman was asked to respond to the question as to whether there should be a national policy establishing a basic right to health care. Josh spoke eloquently, and then posted his remarks on his weblog devoted to [...]
Continue reading...9. October 2009
Discussion Leader: Charles P. Vega, MD, Residency Director [The National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access highlight local initiatives throughout the United States that are designed to improve the health status of populations within our nation. One of the California's largest Latino barrios, in Orange County, has been served for the past 35 years by [...]
Continue reading...30. September 2009
Discussion Leader: Kevin Murray, MD, University of Washington/Tacoma General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program The concept of an “Educational Health Center” has evolved over several years as a result of collaborative process between the University of Washington School of medicine’s Department of Family Medicine (Department), Community clinics as represented by the Northwest Regional Primary Care [...]
Continue reading...4. April 2009
Among the distinctive features of the National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access are the early morning assigned breakfast breakout groups. Each conference registrant participates in a group of five or six persons. Every group has a specific topic for discussion that relates to the subject matter of the day’s plenary sessions. The following is [...]
Continue reading...3. April 2009
One of the scheduled presentations for the Tuesday morning plenary sessions at the Twentieth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access is by Doctor Rick Flinders of the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program. His topic is “The Family Medicine Residency as Change Agent”. In preparation for the discussion panel that will follow Dr Flinders’ [...]
Continue reading...18. March 2009
The Twentieth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access will be held at the Hyatt Regency Monterey from Monday, April 6 through Wednesday April 8, 2009. The Theme of the Twentieth National Conference will be “Primary Health Care Access, the American Medical System and Its Potential for Sudden Change”. (To go directly to the Twentieth [...]
Continue reading...18. March 2009
Conference theme: “American Health Care System: An Imminent Metamorphosis?” Monday, April 6, 2009 6:30 AM – 8:00 AM Working breakfasts in preassigned groups (conference registrants only) Cypress Room – First Floor of Conference Building 8:10 A.M. – 12:00 PM Plenary session, Windjammer 1 and 2 (first floor) (Mark E. Clasen, MD, PhD, Wright State [...]
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17. May 2010
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