"Understanding how lifestyle, behavior, and economic status affect health, and applying this knowledge to medical practice is vital for future physicians, according to a new report from the AAMC...
Welcome to the Medical Education Futures Study (MEFS)!
Welcome to our website. The mission of MEFS is to highlight the social mission of medical education during the current period of medical school expansion and potential major health care reform. The website serves as a vehicle of information and data dissemination for the community of students, educators, practitioners, researchers, policy analysts, policy makers and press. Special thanks to the Macy Foundation, whose generous support made this project possible and the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services which provides us with rich intellectual resources and a home base.
Featured Publications
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Association of American Medical CollegesJanuary 12, 2012Tags: Medical Students, Social Mission
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AAFP News NowJanuary 5, 2012"The increased attention to the lack of family physicians and other primary care physicians needed to meet the nation's growing needs may have had an effect on medical students' choice...
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Annals of Family MedicineJanuary/February 2012"Research demonstrates an association between the geographic concentration of primary care clinicians and mortality in the area, but there is limited evidence of a mortality benefit of primary...
In Legislation/On the Hill
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GME InitiativeDecember 2011
"The Graduate Medical Education (GME) Initiative is a voluntary, collaborative “grassroots” endeavor of individuals representing health care consumers and leaders in Family Medicine Residency...
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Center for Medicare and Medicaid InnovationOctober 2011
"The Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative is a new CMS-led, multi-payer initiative fostering collaboration between public and private health care payers to strengthen primary care for all...
Tags: Health Care Reform
Homepage News
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HealthyState.orgJanuary 24, 2012
"Florida is running dangerously low on a key resource. And we’re not talking oranges. In much of the Sunshine State, primary care physicians – internists, pediatricians, OB/GYNs and others who...
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CBS Money WatchJanuary 18, 2012
"Ohio plans to spend $1 million to expand an approach to primary care that encourages the family doctor to better coordinate with specialists and others to improve a patient's health,...
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Medicine and Social JusticeJanuary 14, 2012
"One of the major features of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the idea of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). The final regulations from Medicare were issued in October, 2011, so the...
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American Medical NewsJanuary 9, 2012
"A federal survey of Medicare beneficiaries shows that slightly more patients are having difficulty finding new primary care physicians to care for them."
