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For Release Upon Receipt - August 1, 2008
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Jodie Petrie, 617-638-5432, jpetrie@bu.edu
HRSA AWARDS $1.3 MILLION TO BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER
(Boston)-Newton resident Angela Jackson, M.D., associate professor of medicine and director of the Primary Care Residency Training Program and Boston Medical Center (BMC), received the prestigious Health Resource and Services Administration (HRSA) Title VII Training Grant for Primary Care Physicians, totaling $1.3 million over three years. The grant will be used to enhance the Internal Medicine Primary Care Training Program, through the development of interconnected education endeavors addressing cultural competence, mental health and addiction, while further building on BMC’s leadership in health care for Boston’s underserved population.
HRSA awards competitive grants and cooperative agreements to train and educate health care professionals at more than 1,700 institutions. These programs promote workforce diversity and help ensure that health professions curricula reflect changes in the nation's health care needs.
Primary care physicians are limited and current projections show that the future supply of primary care physicians will be inadequate to meet the health care needs of the aging U.S. population. “The Primary Care Training Program at BMC intends to continue to educate general internists who can effectively care for patients from all cultural and social backgrounds and address the broad array of health needs in an underserved community,” explains Jackson. “This grant provides us with the opportunity to further develop our innovative curricula, combining didactics with hands-on experience, that prepare residents to become leaders in healthcare for underserved communities.
Boston Medical Center is the largest safety net hospital in New England, located in an inner city neighborhood of Boston. Boston Medical Center is a founder of the Boston HealthNet, a partnership of the hospital, Boston University School of Medicine and 15 community health care providers located in neighborhoods throughout Boston. The Primary Care Training Program has been successfully preparing young physicians for careers in primary care since 1974, with longstanding ties to the community and public health agencies, and a diverse faculty, committed to the care of medically underserved patients.
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