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

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. - Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Much has changed in the past six years since our last Health Policy Journal Club at Georgetown. I stepped down as director of the Robert L.

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Increasing Primary Care Research Workforce and Output through T32 Primary Care Fellowship Training [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

CONTEXT Primary care (PC) is well-positioned to address rapidly evolving public health priorities and research meaningful to patients and other stakeholders. Culturally-competent, high-quality training is provided via coursework, seminars/workshops, and mentored, hands-on research. SETTING: Academic medical center.

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Forecasting and adapting to the family medicine workforce shortage

The Health Policy Exchange

But how has the specialty of family medicine fared, and what else can be done to extend capacity of the existing primary care workforce? These questions were the subjects of two recent Georgetown University Health Policy seminars. Image courtesy of the American Academy of Family Physicians Modest gains in the numbers of U.S.

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