AAMC Praises Bill to Create Primary Care Mentorship, Scholarship Programs
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AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., sent a June 12 letter praising Senators Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) for introducing a bill that would authorize a series of programs to strengthen the health care workforce.
The Building a Health Care Workforce for the Future Act (S. 1152) includes a number of provisions designed to address the top factors that graduating medical students consistently cite as affecting their specialty choice: the content of a specialty; lifestyle factors associated with a specialty; and the influence of a role model in a specialty.
The bill would establish under Title VII a program to increase longitudinal mentorship opportunities for entering medical students who express an interest in primary care, as well as a program to identify effective role models in primary care through a nationwide network of primary care mentors and resources.
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