http://medicaleducationfutures.org/blog/2009/08/teaching-health-centers-a-positive-step-towards-health-care-reform/ Essential Health Policy News for Med School Educators and Students Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:47:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://medicaleducationfutures.org/blog/2009/08/teaching-health-centers-a-positive-step-towards-health-care-reform/#comment-5024 Neetika Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:37:07 +0000 http://medicaleducationfutures.org/blog/?p=142#comment-5024 Very good post. Keep it up. Best of luck. Very good post. Keep it up.
Best of luck.

]]> http://medicaleducationfutures.org/blog/2009/08/teaching-health-centers-a-positive-step-towards-health-care-reform/#comment-4969 stocks Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:34:32 +0000 http://medicaleducationfutures.org/blog/?p=142#comment-4969 If financial investment in Community Health Centers (CHCs) in Indiana will ultimately result in savings for health care systems – totaling $473 million for Indiana in 2007, then this is a very good news. Such savings can be utilized for other health care systems to improve them or could be used to add more and better health care facilities and equipments. If financial investment in Community Health Centers (CHCs) in Indiana will ultimately result in savings for health care systems – totaling $473 million for Indiana in 2007, then this is a very good news. Such savings can be utilized for other health care systems to improve them or could be used to add more and better health care facilities and equipments.

]]> http://medicaleducationfutures.org/blog/2009/08/teaching-health-centers-a-positive-step-towards-health-care-reform/#comment-4806 Peter Beatty Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:16:43 +0000 http://medicaleducationfutures.org/blog/?p=142#comment-4806 I fully support the idea of expanding the use of Community Health Centers as venues for medical education. I know from experience at our institution that CHCs can provide terrific training experiences. I have two suggestions, however, that broaden the THC concept as described in this blog and on the MEFS website. First, training at CHCs should not be limited to graduate medical education. We have had medical students training at two rural CHCs in our region for years with great success. Second, at the graduate medical education level, I am concerned about limiting CHC involvement to those situations in which the CHC would establish its own residency program. There would also be great benefit to facilitating the establishment of strong organizational and educational relationships between CHCs and existing residency programs. I fully support the idea of expanding the use of Community Health Centers as venues for medical education. I know from experience at our institution that CHCs can provide terrific training experiences. I have two suggestions, however, that broaden the THC concept as described in this blog and on the MEFS website. First, training at CHCs should not be limited to graduate medical education. We have had medical students training at two rural CHCs in our region for years with great success. Second, at the graduate medical education level, I am concerned about limiting CHC involvement to those situations in which the CHC would establish its own residency program. There would also be great benefit to facilitating the establishment of strong organizational and educational relationships between CHCs and existing residency programs.

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