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MCG receives grant, encourages general physicians
The Medical College of Georgia
has received a $666,000 continua
tion grant from the Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation to support
the university’s initiatives to edu
cate more primary care physicians
for Georgia and to help prepare
future physicians for managed
care.
“The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation funding has been an
important catalyst for change in
our educational programs for medi
cal studentsand primary care resi
dents,” said Dr. Daniel W. Rahn,
vice dean for Clinical Affairs of the
MCG School of Medicine. “The
foundation’s continued support
has allowed us to make significant
curricular changes which are now
integrated into our educational
program at all levels.”
MCG is one of 14 U.S. medical
schools receiving funding from
Robert Wood Johnson Founda
tion, the country’s largest health
care philanthropic organization.
The foundation’s Generalist Phy
sician Initiative targets the
nation’s need for more family medi
cine physicians, gcneral internists
and general pediatricians. MCG
has received nearly s2million from
the foundation to support its Gen
eralist Phyician Initiative, begin
noil;g with a planning grant in
1992,
“The Generalist Physician Ini
tiative has four major areas in
which we have developed programs:
admissions, undergraduate cur
riculum, residency training, and
practice entry and support,” said
Dr. Max Miller, professor of medi
cine and director of MCG’s Office
of Generalist Education.
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The programs reach into high
schools and colleges in southwest
Georgia, one of the state’s most
medically under-served regions, by
givingstudents the opportunity to
shadow practicing physicians.
“Many of these students never even
considered medicine as a career,
never mind becoming a primary
care physician,” Dr. Miller said.
“But as a result of this program,
we now have two of those students
in medical school at MCG.” The
idea behind reaching out to stu
dents from these areas is the real
ity that many physicians and other
health care professionals will re
turn to their home to practice, he
said,
As soon as students begin medi
cal school, they get a taste of a
primary care by shadowing practi
tionersin a generalist specialty. In
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the not-too-distant past, students
didn’t get such an experience until
they began clinical rotations in
their third year. Now, in their first
year, all 180 students spend two
and one-half days per quarter for
the first three quarters of school
mary care physicians.
Other curriculum changes in
clude a health promotion and dis
ease prevention course for second
year studentsthat was implemented
this past academic year and will be
expanded to include biostatistics
and epidemiology this year. The
problem-based learning course for
first- and second-year students also
is a departure from more tradi
tional lecture-based learning and
startswith a patient’s problems as
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