http://medicaleducationfutures.org/blog/2009/01/increasing-primary-care-providers-without-paying-them/ Essential Health Policy News for Med School Educators and Students Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:47:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://medicaleducationfutures.org/blog/2009/01/increasing-primary-care-providers-without-paying-them/#comment-2357 Jeff Harwood, MD Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:04:57 +0000 http://medicaleducationfutures.org/blog/?p=87#comment-2357 Would agree with your premise, but many schools have abandoned any mission of educating primary care providers. The schools perceive bigger prestige and outside monies associated with the subspecialists. With less State tuition support, the Deans have to look elsewhere for monies. There is also a lack of primary care representation on admission committees. It is very time consuming to expect a community-based physician to volunteer time to serve on admissions and so the task many times falls to salaried academics. Would agree with your premise, but many schools have abandoned any mission of educating primary care providers. The schools perceive bigger prestige and outside monies associated with the subspecialists. With less State tuition support, the Deans have to look elsewhere for monies. There is also a lack of primary care representation on admission committees. It is very time consuming to expect a community-based physician to volunteer time to serve on admissions and so the task many times falls to salaried academics.

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