Primary Care-Population Health Program Committee
MD alumni are serving on a number of committees charged with making critical decisions about the future of Alpert Medical School.
Among them is Dan DiPrete ’85 MD’89, P’15MD’19, ’15MD’19, who is serving on the Primary Care-Population Health Program Advisory Council. This new, dual-degree program is slated to launch in 2015 and will graduate a cadre of primary care-focused physicians who have also completed a master’s degree in population health. Dan reports that the subcommittees are working on the various components of the planned program, on schedule.
But the big news, he says, is the American Medical Association’s $1 million grant to support the planning of the program. Alpert Medical School was one of 11 schools to earn a grant out of 119 that applied to the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative. "That's a big vote of confidence on the part of the AMA, and as a practical matter, it goes a long way toward the program’s successful implementation," Dan says.
Jeffrey Borkan, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Family Medicine and assistant dean in charge of developing the new program, says the funds will be used for planning, piloting, creating an admissions process, and evaluation of the program. "A major part of the AMA grant is [also] involvement in a cutting-edge consortium around accelerating change in medical education," he adds.
There is still plenty more work to do, Borkan says, including application for accreditation to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, creation of the new master’s degree program, curriculum design, and forging specific agreements with key partners, departments, and Brown-affiliated health systems. |