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Why Train Health Professionals in Community Health Centers?. Working for Healthy Communities since 1972. David N. Katz, MD. “Training more Country Doctors” Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBN-EB3wlf8&NR=1. Most of us like to play the notes that we already know.
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Why Train Health Professionals in Community Health Centers? Working for Healthy Communities since 1972 David N. Katz, MD
“Training more Country Doctors” Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBN-EB3wlf8&NR=1
What is the PRIME Program? VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EABi6pdB3Hs
UC Davis Rural-PRIME: Curriculum Plan 2011- Don Hilty, M.D. Director, Rural-PRIME Suzanne Eidson-Ton, M.D./M.S. Co-Director, Rural-PRIME
Rural Prime Curriculum WheelUniversity of California-Davis School of Medicine (SOM)
Year 1 • Rural-PRIME Orientation • Rural-PRIME Seminar • Healthy Communities and Comm’y Engagement • Health Care Leadership, Technology, Equity & Advocacy • Advising: 3 Meetings With Director/Co-director • Evaluation: 3 Focus Groups With Dr. Rainwater & Annual Survey • Center for Virtual Care Sessions: Phlebotomy, Labor & BLS Doctoring 1 Environmental Health Agricultural Health Rural-PRIME Doctoring Sessions- Rural cases, co-teachers & standardized patients Rural Physician Preceptors 6-week Break Metabolism/ Reproduction/ Endocrinology, Pathophysiology Pharmacology Human Structure/Function Early August Mid December 2nd week January Mid May
Year 2 • Rural-PRIME • Seminars: Healthy Communities & Community Engagement, Health • Care Leadership, Health Technology, Health Equity, Health Advocacy,Rural California (optional this year) • Center for Virtual Care Sessions • Evaluation: 3 Focus Groups With Dr. Rainwater & Annual Survey • Advising: 3 Meetings With Director/Co-director Doctoring 2 Population-based Health Rural Cases, Co-teachers & Standardized Patients Rural Physician Preceptors Systemic Pathology & Pharmacology USMLE1 Neuroscience Cardiology Pulmonary Nephrology Musculo- Skeletal Hematology Oncology GI Late June Mid Sept Mid Nov Mid Dec End Feb
Year 3 • Doctoring 3 • Topics: Epidemiology, Toxicology, Population-based Health, Economics of Medicine, Doctor- Patient Communication, Cultural Sensitivity, & Clinical Reasoning • Rural Cases, Co-teachers & Standardized Patients (with multi-site group via telemedicine) Introduction to Master’s Options/Alternatives: Group & Individual Meetings With Director/Co-director & Visitors, Then Student Completes Applications, Obtains Letters & Notifies Rural-PRIME of Plans Evaluation: 3 Focus Groups With Dr. Rainwater & Annual Survey Surgery Peds Ob/GYN Primary Care Medicine Psychiatry P/NALS–Ped./NeonatalAdvanced Life Support ATLS–Advanced Trauma Life Support ALSO–Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics ACLS-Advanced Life Support 8 wk RURAL rotation & Standard Clerkship (OR 4 wk RURAL & 4 wk regular) & Spec/Gen Inpatient 4 wk RURAL rotation & Inpatient, PICU, Oral Health, & Child Ab. 4 wk RURAL rotation & Inpatient/ University OB/GYN Rotation Standard Clerkship or 4 wk RURAL & 4 wk regular & Telepsych Standard Clerkship & Telemedicine Consults & Visits to Subspec’ties Telemedicine Consults & Visits to Subspec’ties
Year 4 • Masters/alternative • MA: Public Health, Medical Informatics or Other OR Research (e.g. T-32) OR Fellowship • Locale: UC Davis or Other • Seminar • Present One Another’s Projects (if on-site) • Advising On- or Off-site • Coursework • Didactics: In-Person or Distance Education • Clinical: Skills Seminars and Volunteering • Field work • Data Collection • Other
Year 5 • Advising • MSPE (“Dean’s Letter”) Advice • Residency Selection • Career Planning • Evaluation • Evaluation: 3 Focus Groups With Dr. Rainwater & Annual Survey • Clinical Rotation • Required 4-week Rural Clinically-based Rotation: Rural Site or, Telemedicine to Rural Site or Other Approved Rotation • Selective: Must Choose One or More of the Following • Doctoring 4 Facilitator for Rural-PRIME group • Rural-PRIME Medical Student Leadership Liaison • Convert School required 4-wk Special Study Module (SSM) or Scholarly Project (SPO) to Rural Focus • Curriculum Development for Rural-PRIME Seminar (e.g., 6 wks) • Community Engagement Project Demonstrating Leadership • Other 4-wk Didactic Credit (e.g., Medical Informatics, Telemedicine, Handheld Devices, Electronic Health Record) • Or Other Activity, Agreed Upon by Student and Director/Co-director
From the Medical School • “Academic--Community Partnerships are the present and the future. In the past, academics shared what they thought was important. Now, the best academics talk at length, and do needs assessments, for research and educational collaborations. The focus of quality medical education has shifted from giving good ideas to students, to showing students clinical skills. In the future, linking those skills to actual patient outcomes in the community will be necessary.” Donald Hilty, MD UC-Davis School of Medicine, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry • ”I was hugely excited about starting a program that would generate health care providers for people in rural areas. There are different amenities in rural and urban areas but health care is a basic need and everyone should be able to access it. “ Sneha Patel, MA, Manager, Rural-PRIME and UC Merced San Joaquin Valley PRIME.
But first…Who is CommuniCare? CommuniCare Health Centers is a private, non-profit, comprehensive health care organization serving the low income, uninsured, underinsured, and ethnically diverse population of Yolo County and surrounding areas.
History in Brief • Founded by Dr. John H. Jones in 1972 as the Davis Free Clinic • Expanded to include clinic sites in Woodland and West Sacramento in 1994. • Moved the Davis Community Clinic site on DHS campus in 1997. • Became a Federally Qualified Health Center in 2007.
CommuniCare Locations CommuniCare Health Centers operates a total of five clinics, three of which are primary care clinics geographically dispersed throughout Yolo County. Yolo County
Now back to the Question: How?We say, “I’d like to share my experience with medical students and residents…while providing quality care to my patients.”
But some days we feel like this… vs Is this our choice?
Why, then, is training medical students and residents important to our Community Health Centers, despite the difficulties? ?
Residency Match, 2010% of graduating US medical students choosing specialties From Tom Bodenheimer, MD UCSF Department of Family Medicine
Race/Ethnicity of California Physicians From Tom Bodenheimer, MD UCSF Department of Family Medicine
The National Health Manpower SHORTAGE • The shortage is hitting community clinics • 13% vacancies for family physicians in FQHCs, higher in rural areas (Rosenblatt, JAMA 2006;295:1062) • When it hits a clinic, panel sizes go up, with fewer clinicians per patient • This reduces access and quality, and increases clinician dissatisfaction • As clinician dissatisfaction increases, fewer clinicians will come to FQHCs • A death spiral could develop From Tom Bodenheimer, MD UCSF Department of Family Medicine
From Tom Bodenheimer, MD UCSF Department of Family Medicine
PATIENT CENTERED MEDICAL HOME ? Will we have the Health Manpower to avoid health system collapse? VS
“To Teach or Not to Teach…That is the Question.” W. S’peare, M.D.
The Medical School’s perspective: Goal #1 Increase Diversity in our Future Healthcare Workforce
The Case for Diversity in Health Care Education Increasing the diversity of health sciences faculty and students will: • Enrich the learning environment for all participants • Enhance the overall education and cultural competence of health professionals • Improve access to care for medically underserved groups and communities • Help reduce racial/ethnic health disparities From Cathryn L. Nation, MD Associate Vice President-Health Sciences UC Office of the President
The Medical School’s perspective: Goal #2 Increase medical student buy-in to careers in rural primary care
The Medical School’s perspective: Goal #3 • Present the CHC as a Role model: • student exposure to our successful health care teams
The Community Clinic Perspective: Goal #1 For Our Mission: to pass on our experience and skills to the next generation of safety net healers (It can’t hurt med students who will become specialists, either.)
The Community Clinic Perspective: Goal #2 Recruitment and Retention of community clinic clinicians • For the satisfaction and intellectual challenge of being a teacher • hiring our own students and residents
The Community Clinic Perspective: Goal #3 • Collaboration with the university medical center and medical school bears secondary fruits. For us: • Telemedicine • Increased scope of care through training at the medical center, which providers can use to improve patient care • HCV management • HIV management • Psychiatry • Opthamology
Questions? Visit our website to learn more about us: http://www.communicarehc.org