August 26, 2008
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Program Result
The National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality worked to create a learning network aimed at accelerating clinical improvements in the prevention and treatment of obesity in children.
August 22, 2008
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Program Result
The Association of American Medical Colleges provided education and coaching to teams at 22 academic health centers that were implementing the Chronic Care Model - a system to improve the care of chronically ill patients.
September 5, 2008
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Program Result
The International Life Sciences Institute Center for Health Promotion published six papers on data from a survey of health care practitioners regarding the assessment and treatment of childhood obesity in a July 2002 special supplement to Pediatrics.
January 20, 2007
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Program Result
The University of Virginia School of Medicine conducts a free, six-week intensive summer academic enrichment program to help minority and disadvantaged college students compete successfully for admission to medical school.
January 1, 2007
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Program Result
The University of Nebraska College of Medicine drafted and approved a new, integrated curriculum for medical students that the school implemented in the fall of 1992.
January 1, 2007
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Program Result
The Oregon Health Sciences University revised its curriculum to emphasize ethical and societal concerns, humanism in the patient-doctor relationship, the importance of preventive medicine, care of the underserved, and independent, self-directed learning.
March 1, 2007
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Program Result
Staff from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences formed a panel of experts to identify and review innovative continuing medical education programs on overweight and obesity.
March 1, 2007
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Program Result
Investigators at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center created the Center for Professional Health, which provides a program for health professionals who overprescribe painkillers or other controlled drugs.
April 10, 2007
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Program Result
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine undertook a comprehensive effort to reorient its educational programs toward primary care.
April 30, 2007
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Program Result
The University of Rochester Medical Center expanded a pilot project in Rochester called Health-E-Access, which they had created in 2001 to study the use of telemedicine to treat inner-city students.