Medical School

Retired Doc Fears Burnout for New Recruits

Where are the doctors, nurses and medical staff to be found for these 32 million people?

June 16, 2010 -- Perhaps our government expects the medical profession to reorder its established patient-doctor relationship while expanding the present physician workload to accommodate 32 million more people who now lack full care. Read More >>

Hope Grows To Ease Shortage

Rep. Tina Kotek teamed up with a healthcare coalition to breathe life into a loan repayment program during the February special session.

March 3, 2010 – Score one for Rep. Tina Kotek (D-Portland) during the February special session. Kotek breathed new life back into a bill to draw more primary care physicians to Oregon by helping repay their student loans. Read More >>

Rural, Urban Poor Docs Offered Renewed Loan Guarantees

Oregon Office of Rural Health receives federal grant to help rural providers

February 24, 2010 -- The Oregon Office of Rural Health at Oregon Health & Science University has received a grant from the National Health Service Corp (NHSC) to help primary care providers in rural and underserved urban areas repay their loans. Read More >>

It’s Time We Face the Primary Care Shortage

From reimbursement rates to public policy and medical schools, a UCLA professor emeritus offers a step-by-step solution

January 6, 2010 -- Fifty years ago over half of medical school graduates became general practitioners, general internists or general pediatricians. Today subspecialty training dominates by a ratio of almost 7:1. Read More >>

Cynicism Pervades Modern Medical Schools

A generation gap, or do med students become less empathetic, more cynical with formal education?

June 10, 2009 -- There is nothing like a corrupt philosophy to bring down a winning organization, such as the education of future physicians. Today many medical students discover the personal philosophy that inspired them to enter medical school is eroding, if not gone completely, following their exposure to medical education. Read More >>

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