The Twenty-First of the National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access will be held on the April 12 through 15, 2010 (concluding at noon on the 15th) at the Grand Hyatt Kaua’i, in Koloa, Kaua’i, Hawai’i. The theme of the conference is “Consequences”. CME prescribed units will be awarded. (For the CME awards of each [...]
Continue reading...6. February 2010
The National Conference’s extended sessions on the primary care workforce will include case studies of several states. Two states hard hit by the current recession are Michigan and California. A presentation led by Doctor Daniel Webster will detail Michigan State University’s interventions in Michigan’s geographical areas of high need to improve the primary care physician [...]
Continue reading...29. January 2010
The National Conference will continue its examination of regional strategic interventions, in which medical school departments partner with communities and agencies to increase the primary care workforce and the availability of health care for rural America. Even if NO health care reform proposal passes in the near future, it is still a public policy issue that has [...]
Continue reading...29. January 2010
[At the Twentieth National Conference, a new feature, "The Thought Provocateur" session, was instituted to focus on particular ideas of relevance to the general issues of primary health care access. This year Warwick Troy, Ph.D., a National Consortium fellow, proposes a revisiting of the subjects of geriatric medicine and long term care.] Dr Troy’s presentation will [...]
Continue reading...24. January 2010
As part of the “Consequences of Strategic Interventions” sub-theme of the Twenty-First National Conference on Primary Health Care Access, two named lectures will address specific strategic interventions that have been in place for four decades. Consequences of Strategic Intervention: Creating a Board for the Periodic Recertification of Family Physicians The Twentieth G. Gayle Stephens Lecture will be [...]
Continue reading...14. January 2010
During this millenium, the disasters related to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and epidemics of SARS and H1N1 influenza brought the nation’s public health infrastructure into the evening news front stories. The health reform legislation before Congress addresses some national needs, but remains silent on others. Richard Clover, MD, Dean of the University of Louisville’s School of [...]
Continue reading...11. January 2010
The second plenary session of the Twenty-first National Conference on Primary Health Care Access will be held on the morning of Monday, April 12, 2010. The session will be comprised of a roundtable discussion on what the consequences may be on the nation’s physician workforce, particularly primary care physicians. The roundtable discussants will be Doctor [...]
Continue reading...10. January 2010
The American Academy of Family Physicians has approved prescribed credits for the following conferences, workshops and retreats conducted by the Coastal Research Group, for the amounts specified below: National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access 20th National Conference Monterey, Califonria April 6-8, 2009 15.25 Prescribed credits 19th National Conference Koloa, Kaua’i, Hawai’i April 7-10, 2008 19 Prescribed credits 18th National Conference San Diego, [...]
Continue reading...7. January 2010
Development In 1990, a group of persons interested in family and community medicine, medical school reform, and advocacy for rural, inner city and other geographical areas of need, were invited to rural Wisconsin for the First National Conference on Primary Health Care Access. Since then, similar groups have been invited to assemble each Spring. Over the years, [...]
Continue reading...30. December 2009
At the Ninth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access, a panel was created in which three brothers, Doctors Philip R Lee, Peter V Lee and Hewlett Lee, all prominent in health care reform or health care education reform, made their first presentation together. They were introduced by Dr Peter Lee’s son, Peter, who later [...]
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6. February 2010
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