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Home » New Grant Will Train More Primary Care Physicians in Chicago
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New Grant Will Train More Primary Care Physicians in Chicago

By medwebApr 11, 2011
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New Grant Will Train More Primary Care Physicians in Chicago

Innovative program for Northwestern residents in community health setting

A consortium including the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, Erie Family Health Center, and Norwegian American Hospital will receive a new federal grant that could reach $16 million over five years to support an innovative new program to expand the primary care workforce.

The grant will fund family medicine outpatient residency training in a community-based setting that emphasizes preventive and chronic disease management. The program has begun training eight residents in primary care. It will grow to 16 residents in July and expand to 24 residents by July 2012.

“This is a new approach,” said Deb Edberg, MD, assistant clinical professor in the Feinberg School of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine and director of the McGaw family residency program. “We are creating a residency experience that emphasizes training at an outpatient primary care facility and isn’t hospital dependent. One of the big problems with health care is physicians graduate and do a really good job of taking care of people when they are sick in the hospital, but don’t do as good a job at primary care and prevention. This program is designed to help change that.”

The Northwestern consortium is one of 11 designated teaching health centers around the country awarded a grant from the Health Resources and Service Administration.

“If we want people to be experts in community care, which is what Erie does, we should train the next generation of providers,” said David Buchanan, MD, associate clinical professor in the Feinberg Division of General Internal Medicine and chief medical officer at Erie. “This program will support the future of the health system in Chicago and the country.”

José R. Sánchez, president and chief executive officer of Norwegian American Hospital, noted that the grant “will enable the partnership to train family physicians with an emphasis on caring for the underserved as well as contributing to research and public policy. Norwegian American Hospital is honored to be part of this important new program.”

Members of the media, please contact Marla Paul via e-mail or at (312) 503-8928 for more information about this story.

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