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High School of Graduation and Family Doctor Practice Sites
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 the [...]
Continue reading...National Project on the Outcomes on Family Medicine Residency Training
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 distribution [...]
Continue reading...Fellows and Senior Fellows
12. April 2010
The National Consortium on Community-Based Medical Education provides the academic home for the collaborative research projects of the Coastal Research Group and plans the National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access and associated activities. The Senior Fellows of the National Consortium are persons who have participated in ten or more of the National Conferences on Primary [...]
Continue reading...Colloquy: Joshua Freeman’s “Red, Blue, and Purple: The Math of Health Care Spending”
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...Josh Freeman on the question of a national policy on the right to health care
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...University of California Irvine’s Family Medicine Residency Program: Outreach to Orange County’s Latino Community
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 the [...]
Continue reading...Forum on Educational Health Centers
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 Association [...]
Continue reading...20th National Conference on Primary Health Care Access: Working Breakfast Topics
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 the [...]
Continue reading...Discussion Points: Physician Residency Programs and Los Angeles County’s Safety Net
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’ presentation, [...]
Continue reading...Twentieth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access in Monterey
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 National [...]
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17. May 2010
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