March 1, 2000
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The Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, State of Minnesota Department of Health, worked to improve both needs assessment and support services for recruitment and retention in the state's rural areas.
March 1, 2000
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Program Result
The South Dakota Department of Health addressed the decline in the number of its rural practice sites by creating four Regional Coordinated Care Networks to promote primary care linkages in underserved areas.
March 1, 2000
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The Center for Research in Ambulatory Health Care Administration developed, tested and demonstrated a national physician profiling system for ambulatory health care.
June 1, 2000
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Program Result
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention developed strategies for dissemination of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research's Clinical Practice Guideline on Smoking Cessation to health care providers.
July 1, 2000
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Program Result
The AMA produced and disseminated a pocket guide, Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Primary Care Clinicians, prepared by the federal Agency for Health Care Policy and Research as a summary of its Clinical Practice Guideline on Smoking Cessation.
August 1, 2000
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Program Result
The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) developed a supplement to the Journal of General Internal Medicine on the role of the physician in managed care, which was published in January 1999.
August 1, 2000
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Program Result
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine explored the barriers and incentives to appropriate diffusion of genetic services into mainstream medicine and providers' willingness to participate in clinical studies.
September 1, 2000
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Program Result
From 1994 through 1997, the American Medical Association conducted a series of national surveys of residency program directors and graduating residents about the career opportunities of resident physicians.
September 1, 2000
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Program Result
Five RWJF-funded projects created an organizational structure to support the planning, development and implementation of collaborative approaches to improving health care access for underserved populations in Worcester County that had been underway since 1995.
December 1, 2000
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Program Result
The Generalist Physicians-in-Training initiative developed a program, called Projects-in-a-Box, designed to educate students and promote interest in generalist medicine, trends in medical care, and problems faced by generalist physicians.