Category: Project Materials

  • "What Has Changed?": the 24th National Conference Welcoming Remarks (Haughton)

    We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of the Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital of Whittier, California for funding the transcription and editing of this section of the Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth National Conference: The following transcription is of the opening sessions of the 24th National Conference on Primary Health Care Access, held April 8, 2013 at the Grand…

  • 24th National Conference: Observance of the 30th Anniversary of the Coastal Research Group

    On Thursday, April 11, 2013, William H. Burnett, MA, Coordinator of the Coastal Research Group, will observe the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Coastal Research Group as a State of California non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation in July, 1983. The founding document, receiving the endorsement of the California Secretary of State on July 6th, specifies…

  • 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, monitored 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…

  • National Project on the Outcomes on Family Medicine Residency Training

    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…

  • Colloquy: Joshua Freeman's "Red, Blue, and Purple: The Math of Health Care Spending"

    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…

  • Continuing Medical Education Credits for Coastal Research Group National Conferences 1993-2008

    19th National Conference April 7-10, 2008 Koloa, Kaua’i, Hawai’i 19 Prescribed credits 18th National Conference April 15-17, 2007 San Diego, California 14.5 Prescribed credits 17th National Conference April 7-10, 2006 Koloa, Kaua’i, Hawai’i 17.25 Prescribed credit hours 16th National Conference San Diego, California April 10-12, 2005 14.25 Prescribed credit hours 15th National Conference April 2-4,…

  • Data Base Notes: 2004 AAFP PDW Presentation

    The Coastal Research Group Family Medicine Graduate Data Base provided the underpinnings for a seminar on the Geographical Bases of Family Medicine presented twice at the American Academy of Family Physicians Family Medicine Residency Program Directors Workshop in June, 2004. The seminar was presented by AAFP Director of Education Perry A. Pugno, MD and William…

  • "Range of Services" of Family Medicine Centers Studied

    A core requirement for the training of family physicians is maintaining a panel of patients in a group ambulatory care practice — the family medicine center. Each such center meets criteria established by the family medicine residency accreditation committee. Virtually all family medicine centers are major providers of care in the communities in which they…

  • Natl Project on Community Benefits Phase I: the first 41 Survey Site Visits

    An important element of the National Project on the Community Benefits of Family Medicine Residency Programs is information secured from a group of residency programs that collaborate in the research projects of the Coastal Research Group. At the Second National Workshop on the Community Benefits of Family Medicine Residency Programs (held in Louisville in September,…

  • Remarks of Perry Pugno, MD on the Natl Project on Community Benefits

    The following introduction to the National Project is excerpted from the Thirteenth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access, held in Bethesda, Maryland on March 22-24, 2002. 13th National Conference on Primary Health Care Access Sunday, March 24, 2002 8:15 a.m. “The National Project on Community Benefits of Family Practice Residency Training: the Larger Significance”…