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THE RESEARCH
INFRASTRUCTURE:
CONCEPTS
AND RESOURCES
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The
first six Senior Fellows of the National Consortium on Community Based
Medical Education were inducted on April 14th, 2000 in Koloa, Kaua'i.
From L to R: David N. Sundwall, MD, MPH, Washington DC; Ludlow B. Creary,
MD, MPH, Los Angeles, CA; F. Marion Bishop, PhD, MSPH, Salt Lake City,
UT; J. Jerry Rodos, DO, Chicago, IL; William H. Burnett, MA, Sacramento,
CA; John E. Midtling, MD, MS, Rockford, IL.
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The National Conferences
on Primary Health Care Access:
[ Click here for more information
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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 panels of 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 20 person committee, comprised of the current and emeritus members of the Coastal Research Group's Policy Analysis Committee and Research and Data Base Committee.
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
Annotated Bibliographies:
The Coastal Research Group is engaged in the development of Annotated Bibliographies on relevant subjects to family medicine and to community-based medical education. One of these, on Outcomes Studies on Family Practice Residency Graduates builds on such a bibliography commissioned in by the Coastal Research Group and published, under the authorship of Thomas C. Brown, Ph.D., in a hard-bound edition in 1989. That bibliography is now contained on this website.
Over the next several months, this historical resource will be updated, under the leadership of William A. Norcross, MD, Director of the National Project on the Outcomes if Family Practice Residency Training.
Other Internet-Based Annotated Bibliographies, which are being developed as part of the National Projects and National Grand Rounds, will be hyper-linked to this website. An Annotated Bibliography on Continuity of Care is located at and maintained by the University of Kentucky Department of Family Practice. An Annotated Bibliography on the Behavioral Sciences in Family Practice will be located at and maintained by the Wright State University Department of Family Medicine.
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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