Admissions and ORIGIN Group

After establishing a group together for admissions discussions, there was not much progress. However still willing to work with those interested.

There are researchers and FP faculty to consider for this group. Many have published in this area or are actively participating in committees or in state efforts or in efforts to start new medical schools. Please forward this invitation to them. For now this is a manual list serve, so just have them email me with a bit of introduction and links to any sites.

Even if we have the kind of health care reforms that we need, we must have the kind of physicians who will be willing to care in a comprehensive way. This has more to do with background than previously thought.

It is clear that the valve has been turned off at the admissions level. The flow of FP will not resume unless something is done in a consistent effort across the nation. This is bad for the nation for access, for health costs, for quality, and for the underserved.

Proposed activities include

Regional gatherings and small group visits/seminars with medical school committees over the next two years
Development of criteria regarding screening and interviewing
Sharing of models and outcomes
Efforts to work with new and coming medical schools
A proposed ORIGINS Project - new primary data collection studies to go beyond background and other characteristics in a multi-school effort

Original

Research regarding

Increasing

General and family practice physicians

In and for the

Nation by

Selections

Robert C. Bowman, M.D.

rcbowman@atsu.edu

More at World of Rural Medical Education site at http://www.unmc.edu/Community/ruralmeded/index.htm

Admissions Package

Admissions and ORIGIN Group