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FAMILY MEDICINE SIM CENTER OPENS: In an effort to provide the most advanced medical training for primary care residents, the Memorial Hospital/Brown Family Medicine Residency Program unveiled the new Center for Clinical Skills Training in their Family Care Center on October 19th. Family Medicine faculty and residents demonstrated the hospital’s new high tech teaching simulators, which will be used for training in various settings including emergency, OB/GYN and pediatric care. Funds for the equipment were provided by a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant to fund innovative primary care/family medicine residency training, as part of the federal government’s initiative to strengthen and grow the primary care workforce.
Representatives from the Family Medicine department were among 175 Family Medicine physicians, residents and medical students in Washington DC on May 11 and 12 making their voices heard. Jeff Borkan, MD, PhD, accompanied by Liz Brown, MD, and Jonathan Mendelsohn, MD – both first-year Family Medicine residents – participated in the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Congressional Conference.
Designed to educate and train family doctors on legislative priority issues and lobbying on Capitol Hill, the two-day conference included sessions on physician payment, the future of the primary care physician workforce and innovative programs in the new law health reform law. The MHRI contingent was then able to put what their new lobbying skills to use during face-to-face meetings with both Rhode Island Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed and their health policy staff.
The AAFP is an organization of 100,300 family physicians and medical students with programs in federal, state and grassroots advocacy as well as a research/policy arm called the Robert Graham Center.
Moving the Medical Home Forward:
The Family Care Center was recently featured in the AAMC report on academic practices that have successfully incorporated the Patient Centered Medical Home model of care into their delivery systems. Please click here to read the report.
VIDEO: Memorial Hospital celebrates a century of caring
Welcome to the Brown Family Medicine Website! Our mission is to provide the highest quality care for the people of Rhode Island and the Blackstone Valley, train the next generation, produce the new knowledge needed for practice, and advocate for the health of the population, especially the vulnerable and underserved.
making their voices heard. Jeff Borkan, MD, PhD, accompanied by Liz Brown, MD, and Jonathan Mendelsohn, MD – both first-year Family Medicine residents – participated in the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Congressional Conference.