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The Consequences of Strategic Intervention: Providing Health Care for Rural America
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...Dr Troy’s “Thought Provocateur” Session on Advancing Family Medicine through Geriatrics and Long Term Care
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...Doctors James Puffer, Macaran Baird, Neal Palafox to Present Named Lectures at 21st National Conference in Kaua’i
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...21st National Conference Focus on Nation’s Public Health System: What Happens Now?
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...21st National Conference Plenary: Health Reform Legislation Consequences for the Nation’s Primary Care Physicians
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...Podcast: Doctor Philip Lee discussing the unintended consequences of the creation of Medicare and Medicaid
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 [...]
Continue reading...Josh Freeman, Perry Pugno, Enrique Fernandez to Lead Off 21st National Conference on Primary Health Care Access With “What Just Happened?” Roundtable
5. December 2009
Even as the United States Senate debates health care reform legislation, two Fellows of the Coastal Research Group’s National Consortium on Community-Based Medical Education, joined by a former official of the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration, are preparing the lead-off roundtable discussion for the 21st National [...]
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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29. January 2010
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