Category: Workforce Research

Health Professional Student Association The Board of the Coastal Research Group (CRG) announced the results of a vote of the membership held May 9, 2020. The Board had proposed a name change to better reflect the updated mission of the organization, with the new name “Health Professional Student Association” or HPSA. Throughout the remainder of…

The original interview with Dr Zervanos took place in July, 2010. Its posting is the first of a series of “Lifetimes in Community-Oriented Primary Care” interviews of important figures in the evolution of primary health care access in the United States. The interview was conducted by William H. Burnett of the Coastal Research Group.  …

[The following policy paper is from Tim Henderson, MSPH, MAMC, a fellow of the Coastal Research Group, from George Mason University. Mr Henderson recently completed a study on the Medicaid financing of medical education for the Association of American Medical Colleges (referenced in the footnotes below).] Tim M. Henderson, MSPH, MAMC Department of Health Administration…

As the process of implementing 2010’s federal health care legislation proceeds (see The Implementation Plan for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care and Education Reconciliation Act), debate on the wisdom of the legislation itself continues. One of the most articulate of the dissenters, whose analytical work has been widely quoted in the press, on television,…

As the process of implementing 2010’s federal health care legislation proceeds (see The Implementation Plan for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care and Education Reconciliation Act), debate on the wisdom of the legislation itself continues. One of the most articulate of the dissenters, whose analytical work has been widely quoted in the press, on television,…

A second response to this website’s recent post, Drowning in Student Debt: Young Professionals at the End of Graduate School, has been received from Doctor Michael D. Prislin, Associate Dean of Students of the University of California, Irvine Medical School. The economic circumstances that young professionals often find themselves in following completion of their studies…

The following response to Drowning in Student Debt: Young Professionals at the End of Graduate School, recently posted on this website, was received from Gary L. LeRoy, MD, Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Admissions, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. The best advice that I received when I was contemplating a career in medicine was to…

  When we think of two young professionals married to each other, we think that these two people have nothing in the world economically to worry about.  Unfortunately, for most professionals coming out of their respective graduate schools, the reality can be quite different. The reality is student loan debt with interest rates that are…

Selected Interviews from the Coastal Research Group’s Studentdoctor.net website. This interview was conducted by William H. Burnett and first appeared 30 August, 2009. Students may not be aware of the variety of opportunities available within the Indian Health Service (IHS). To learn more about IHS and the volunteer, scholarship, and employment opportunities available, the Student…

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…

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…