Category: General Conference Context
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The National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access: background
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. Periodically, landmark national legislation…
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"Time Will Tell": Doctors John Boltri, Janice Spalding Describe a Community-Targeted Six Year Medical School Experience
A half-century ago perceived deficiencies in American health care delivery were addressed with initiatives designed to solve problems. The federal Medicare and Medicaid programs were implemented to assist with the financing of health care for the elderly and those of lower income. In the decade following passage of these federal health care financing programs, several initiatives…
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Activities of the Fellows and Senior Fellows of the Coastal Research Group: Doctor Charles E. Henley and the Creation of a New Medical School in Indiana
Charles E. Henley, DO, began his association with the Coastal Research Group as the Department Chair in Family Medicine at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa. After seven years he went to the crosstown University of Oklahoma (Tulsa campus) as Professor in an Endowed Chair for Research and as Vice Chair of the Department of Family…
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Activities of the Fellows and Senior Fellows of the Coastal Research Group: Dr David Sundwall is Vice Chair of Federal Panel on Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access
The Government Accounting Office (GAO) is assigned the function of appointing the members of several key committees with responsibility for advising Congress on the federal health reform legislation passed in 2010. The GAO also appoints members to certain other advisory bodies that were in place before the 2010 legislation was enacted. Last year, the Children’s…
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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…
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Dr Troy's "Thought Provocateur" Session on Advancing Family Medicine through Geriatrics and Long Term Care
[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…
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Podcast: Doctor Philip Lee discussing the unintended consequences of the creation of Medicare and Medicaid
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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Proceedings of the First National Conference on Community Health Center – Primary Care Residency Program Linkages, “Centering Primary Care Residency Training in a Teaching Community Health Center: Adventures in Academic Processes and Community Politics” (Part 2, Garcia)
We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine Department of Family Medicine) for funding the transcription and editing of this section of the Proceedings of the First National Conference on Community Health Center-Primary Care Residency Linkages (Lake Tahoe, Nevada, October 16, 1993): Terry Pitts, EdD, Moderator: We’re fortunate to…
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Proceedings of the First National Conference on Community Health Center – Primary Care Residency Program Linkages, "Community-Oriented Primary Care and the Role of Community Health Centers" (Part 4, Strange, Q and A)
We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of the Valley Consortium for Medical Education (Modesto. California) for funding the transcription and editing of this section of the Proceedings of the First National Conference on Community Health Center-Primary Care Residency Linkages (Lake Tahoe, Nevada, September 16, 1993): Alan Strange, PhD, (Minnesota and Montana Primary Care Associations, Minneapolis,…
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Proceedings of the First National Conference on Community Health Center – Primary Care Residency Program Linkages, "Community-Oriented Primary Care and the Role of Community Health Centers" (Part 3, Holmes)
We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of the Valley Consortium for Medical Education (Modesto. California) for funding the transcription and editing of this section of the Proceedings of the First National Conference on Community Health Center-Primary Care Residency Linkages (Lake Tahoe, Nevada, October 16, 1993): Michael Holmes (Cook Area Health Services, Cook, Minnesota): Good morning. …
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Proceedings of the First National Conference on Community Health Center – Primary Care Residency Program Linkages, "Community-Oriented Primary Care and the Role of Community Health Centers" (Part 2, Anderson)
We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of the Valley Consortium for Medical Education (Modesto. California) for funding the transcription and editing of this section of the Proceedings of the First National Conference on Community Health Center-Primary Care Residency Linkages (Lake Tahoe, Nevada, October 16, 1993): Lil Anderson, (Yellowstone Health Department, Billings, Montana): Thank you, Marc. …
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Proceedings of the First National Conference on Community Health Center – Primary Care Residency Program Linkages, "Community-Oriented Primary Care and the Role of Community Health Centers" (Part 1, Babitz)
We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of the Valley Consortium for Medical Education (Modesto. California) for funding the transcription and editing of this section of the Proceedings of the First National Conference on Community Health Center-Primary Care Residency Linkages (Lake Tahoe, Nevada, October 16, 1993): William H. Burnett, (Conference Planning Committee Coordinator) [Mr Burnett is…