FP Report -- November 1998 Specialty wins contract for primary care faculty development in genetics
As knowledge of human genetics explodes, family medicine will play a key role in ensuring state-of-the-art genetics education for faculty in several medical disciplines.
The Bureau of Maternal and Child Health has awarded family medicine a $1.6 million contract for faculty development in genetics for specialties including family medicine, pediatrics and internal medicine. The three-year contract was awarded Sept. 24 to the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine on behalf of the Primary Care Organizations Consortium, a national oversight coalition with representatives from those three specialties. Norman Kahn, M.D., director of the AAFP Education Division, is the family medicine representative on PCOC's executive committee and the contract's initial project director.
According to Kahn, the project will focus on educating three types of faculty: community-based physicians who teach residents and students, full-time faculty, and leaders including residency directors, department chairs and others.
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