Historic source document from the Coastal Research Group local archive.
HE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE: CONCEPTS AND RESOURCES The National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access: The National Conferences are invitational conferences limited to around 55 persons annually.
The conferences are sponsored by five medical school departments of family and community medicine (University of Kentucky; Wright State University; University of Illinois, Rockford; Charles R.
Drew University; and Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine).
The conferences focus on major themes in family and community medicine and primary health care access.
The conferences are structured to interrelate with ongoing National Projects, described below.
Conference management is provided by the Coastal Research Group.
The National Research Consortium on Community-Based Medical Education: The National Research Consortium is comprised of several interrelated activities that are associated with the subject matter of the National Conferences.
The consortium consists of the academic sponsors of the National Conferences on Primary Health Care Access and the institutional members of the Coastal Research Group.
The National Projects: The National Research Consortium has been approved by the Coastal Research Group Executive Board to conduct three projects associated with the National Conference Series: 1) the National Project on the Outcomes of Family Practice Residency Training [described below] William A.
Norcross, Principal Investigator; 2) the Living History Project (F.
Marian Bishop, Principal Investigator), and 3) the Project on the Funding of Family and Community Medicine in the 21st Century (John E.
Midtling, MD, MS, Principal Investigator).
The National Project Advisory Committees: Distinguished panel sof physicians and researchers knowledgeable about the history and objectives of the academic discipline of family medicine comprise the National Project Advisory Committees.
That National Project Advisory Committee on Family Practice Residency Outcomes is a 21 person committee, comprised of the current and emeritus members of the Coastal Research Group's Policy Analysis Committee and Research and Data Base Committee.
National Grand Rounds: Beginning with the Tenth National Conference on Primary Health Care Access in Bethesda in March, 1999, specific days of each conference are dedicated to in-depth reviews of specific policy issues.
Three of the four National Grand Rounds announced to date are (1) Strategic Programs to Impact the Geographic Distribution of Physicians, (2) Continuity of Care and (3) Issues in the Behavioral Sciences and Family and Community Medicine.
Each of the ongoing activities of these three National Grand Rounds will be supervised by the National Project Advisory Committee on Family Practice Residency Outcomes.
The fourth National Grand Rounds will be on Physician "Supply" and "Work-force" Issues.
The Research Consortium Website: The Website provides information to the public and to Research Consortium members about the various projects.
In addition, it arranges hyperlinks between the Website and such National Research Consortium activities as the Internet-Based Electronic Annotated Bibliographies, described below.
Internet-Based Electronic Annotated Bibliographies: As part of the National Projects and National Grand Rounds, annotated bibliographies will be developed and maintained at specific sites within the National Research Consortium.
Each of the Electronic Annotated Bibliographies will be hyperlinked with the Consortium Website.
Three Electronic Annotated Bibliographies are associated with the National Project on Outcomes: (1) on Continuity of Care will be located at and maintained by the University of Kentucky Department of Family Practice; (2) on Behavioral Sciences in Family Practice will be located at and maintained by the Wright State University Department of Family Medicine.
A third, on the Outcomes Studies on Family Practice Residency Graduates was published by the Coastal Research Group in 1989.
The task of updating that bibliography and establishing a departmental home for it is one of the tasks outlined in this proposal for funding.
The Family Practice Residency Graduate Data Base: A comprehensive data base exists which contains the names, background information, and periodic questionnaire responses of all the graduates of family practice residency programs from 1970 to present for all 45 family practice residency programs that have existed in the State of California.
The Family Practice Data Base has been constructed with the advice and oversight of experts in outcomes research and has been maintained with meticulous care.
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Source file: coastal/Items 080899/RESEARCH.txt. Historic from local Coastal Research Group archive files during the DEV archive reorganization.