Compendium on Physician Retraining Initiative

EXISTING PROGRAMS

The Colorado Personalized Education for Physicians

Oregon Medical Association Physician Renewal Program

The State University of New York

DISCONTINUED PROGRAMS

MCP Hahnemann University School of Medicine

New York State Department of Health

Northport Veterans Association Medical Center

St. Louis Veterans Administration

INITIATIVES NOT IMPLEMENTED

Duke University, Department of Family Medicine

Tulane University Department of Family Medicine Primary Care Task Force

The Veterans Administration

West Virginia University School of Medicine

RESEARCH INITIATIVES

The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)

The University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)

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Compendium on Physician Retraining Initiatives

July 2001
Washington DC

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Introduction:

In 2000, The Office on Women's Health within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services convened the National Task Force on Re-Entry into Clinical Practice for Health Care Professionals. The charge of this task force is to examine critical issues surrounding re-entry for health professionals and to explore strategies for addressing these issues.

The "Compendium on Physician Retraining Initiatives" has been developed to provide current information on physician retraining programs that were featured in the 1994 Pew Health Professions Commission publication, "Physician Retraining As a Strategy to Enhance the Primary Care Workforce: Catalogue of Retraining Initiatives". The information in this compendium was obtained from the Pew publication and through personal communication with the directors and staff of the listed programs. While there are many short-term continuing medical education (CME) programs that may include re-entry components, this publication solely includes information on long-term initiatives that are primarily devoted to physician re-entry issues.

The opinions that are expressed in this publication are those of the individual programs and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office on Women's Health.