The Coastal Research Group

21st National Conference Roundtables: Mission-Oriented Innovations in Teaching Physicians – The Residency-Based Patient Centered Medical Home, Medicaid HMO and Federally Qualified Health Center

Jamie Osborn, MD The Twenty-first National Conference on Primary Health Care Access will feature initiatives in several states, including a series of roundtables relating to the State of California. (See: 21st National Conference on Primary Health Care Access April 12-15, 2010 in Kaua’i.) One of these will explore “mission-oriented” residency linkages with innovative models of “health care [...]

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Community-Based Medical Education: An Interview with the Faculty of the ATSU School of Osteopathic Medicine – Arizona

Selected Interviews from the Coastal Research Group’s Studentdoctor.net website. This interview was conducted by William H. Burnett and first appeared 10 November 2008. This is the second interview in the Student Doctor Network series of “community-based medical education” interviews. (See the previous interview with Gerard Clancy, MD, the Dean of the newly established University of Oklahoma (OU) [...]

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Community-Based Medical Education: An Interview with Gerard Clancy, MD

Selected Interviews from the Coastal Research Group’s Studentdoctor.net website. This interview was conducted by William H. Burnett and first appeared 9 April, 2008. (Subsequent to this interview, Dr Clancy assumed the presidency of the University of Oklahoma, Tulsa Branch) With this interview, Student Doctor Network begins a new series of interviews relating to “community-based medical education” and with [...]

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University of California Irvine’s Family Medicine Residency Program: Outreach to Orange County’s Latino Community

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 [...]

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Forum on Educational Health Centers

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 [...]

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Discussion Points: Physician Residency Programs and Los Angeles County’s Safety Net

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, [...]

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