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Learning from primary care in Canada and Europe

The Health Policy Exchange

learn from the organization of primary care in other Western countries? In this month's Georgetown University Health Policy Seminar, we explored two recent studies that shed light on successes and challenges of primary care reforms in Ontario, Canada and the European Union. What can family medicine in the U.S.

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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

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Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. MDPCP promises to narrow the primary care-subspecialist reimbursement gap and provide opportunities to improve patient care in the short term.

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Caring for the underserved: The National Health Service Corps

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Later legislation added scholarship and loan repayment programs to the NHSC, and recent funding increases provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Affordable Care Act have tripled the size of the corps from 3600 to nearly 10,000. Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L. Phillips, Jr.