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Nine medical training centers in eight
states will share HRSA grants totaling $1.85 million to promote
the graduate medical education of physicians in preventive
medicine and advance the cause of health promotion and disease
prevention.
Recipients may use funds from the Preventive
Medicine Residency Training program to:
-
plan and develop new Preventive
Medicine residency training programs;
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maintain or improve existing residency
training programs; or
-
provide
financial assistance to residency trainees enrolled in
these programs.
Fewer
than 2,800 U.S. physicians are trained specialists in General
Preventive Medicine and Public Health.
Experts estimate that twice that number are needed
to develop an adequate national public health infrastructure.
HRSA
is the lead HHS agency for improving access to health care
for individuals and families nationwide.
HRSA’s Bureau of Health Professions spends $353 million
annually to educate and train culturally competent and diverse
health care professionals who provide cost-saving primary
health care services to medically underserved communities.
The list of grantees follows:
HRSA Preventive Medicine
Residency
Training Grants, FY 2001
|
| GRANTEE
|
AWARD
|
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San Diego State University Foundation
San Diego, Calif.
|
$
237,257
|
|
Nova Southeastern University
College of Osteopathic Medicine
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
|
$
141,670
|
|
Morehouse School of Medicine
Atlanta, Ga.
|
$ 225,171
|
|
Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public
Health
Baltimore, Md.
|
$
316,956
|
|
University of Maryland at Baltimore
Baltimore, Md.
|
$
249,327
|
|
University of Massachusetts Medical Center
Worcester, Mass.
|
$ 163,179
|
|
Health Research, Inc./University of Albany
Rensselaer, N.Y.
|
$
201,375
|
|
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, N.C.
|
$
210,081
|
|
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas
|
$ 100,743
|
TOTAL:
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$ 1,845,759
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