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Greater Medical Center Executive Summary/Risk Management
The checks and balances of the Greater Medical Center's program ensure optimal risk management for hospitals, attending physicians, and students by imposing U.S. clinical medicine guidelines for visiting international medical students/graduates that are consistent with U.S. standards. |
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Health Disparities
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| The United States is a very diverse country. Racial and ethnic minority populations are growing rapidly, more so than their Caucasian counterparts. |
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Lack of Minorities in Medicine
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| The United States has recognized the fact that there is an impending physician shortage. Notwithstanding, there has been a shortage of physicians in underserved areas for quite sometime. |
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The Catastrophic Physician Shortage
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| In recent years the U.S. has been confronted with the fact that the country is producing too few physicians to accommodate the growing population. |
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The Different Visa Waivers Available for International Medical Graduates
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| There has been a major concern regarding foreign-educated physicians and their entry into the United States to practice medicine. |
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AAMC Recommend a Medical School Enrollment Increase
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The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has recommended a 15% increase in the number of U.S. medical school graduates in 2005...
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 Health Policy Department
The Greater Medical Center's Health Policy Department focuses on providing valid and reliable information on health disparities in the United States, the lack of minority physicians, and the impending physician shortage. One of the organizations focal point is to follow and research the nation's uninsured rates and to demonstrate what several states are doing for their residents to aid in reducing the number of uninsured. Universal healthcare coverage is one of the organization's priorities.
Therefore, GMC Group will make certain that the data presented is accurate and will convince policymakers that universal coverage is a major healthcare reform that needs to be implemented. The organization is familiar with the universal healthcare reform proposals that have been presented. One must note that in order for such a reform to be successful, issues such as increasing the supply of practicing physicians must be resolved. GMC strives to be a prominent leader in effecting change within the healthcare system.
Additionally, GMC Group's realm of expertise allows U.S. to position Health Policy Researchers working with GMC Group to be committed to defining state policies and methods on the acceptance and practice of international medical graduates (IMG). The organization hopes to produce analytical information that will help in closing the looming physician shortage by demonstrating that IMGs are a reliable and faster source in combating the physician/healthcare disaster that is slowly approaching. GMC Group has several recommendations, one of which includes establishing affiliations with ACGME teaching hospitals and foreign medical schools in order to prepare IMGs in Accreditation Commission for Graduate Medical Education's clinical rotations. in that way students/graduates are up to speed with U.S. diagnostics and procedures.
We hope that your visit to our site will broaden your perspective on universal health insurance coverage, and we look forward to providing you with information on uninsured rates and how these rates are affecting the insureds out-of-pocket cost. Furthermore, we anticipate that many of you are unaware of the impact that international medical graduates have on our healthcare system. Therefore, we have provided you with sound information about their contribution to rural and underserved parts of the U.S.. Thank you for visiting our site. We hope that we are able to enlighten your outlook on the U.S. healthcare system, and it will be our pleasure to answer any questions you have!
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• Data on uninsured rates
• The proposed universal or near universal healthcare insurance reform within some states
• Risk Management as an integral part of the Greater Medical Center
• Provide statistics on the number of federally designated underserved areas/health disparities
• Demonstrate the lack of minority physicians
• Assure valid and reliable data on International Medical Graduates
•Provide current policy information that addresses the physician shortage
•Provide detailed information on J-1 visa waivers
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The Greater Medical Center prides itself in assuring that international medical graduates have an opportunity to gain U.S. clinical experience so that these same students can enter U.S. residency and have adequate U.S. training prior to their first day as a resident. GMC Group recognizes that there is an impending physician shortage. Therefore, the organization is eager to place U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have completed their medical education aboard and wish to practice in underserved areas, in rural hospitals. International Medical Graduates play a huge role in underserved areas throughout the United States and dependence on their services remains critical. The Greater Medical Center has several recommendations to help solve this impending physician's shortage which include:
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• Establishing affiliations with ACGME teaching hospitals and foreign medical schools in order to prepare more IMGs in Accreditation Commission for Graduate Medical Education' s clinical rotations.
• Re-evaluate the current recommendations set forth by AAMC for a 30% increase by 2015 unless corresponding residency slots are going to be approved/financed.
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The Problems
The Directors of Greater Medical Center have strong affiliations within the healthcare arena. We recognize that the U.S. healthcare system is far from perfect. The country's astonishing 46.6 million uninsured citizens, of whom 8.3 million are children, is just one example of the United State's lack of confronting major issues affecting the population. Healthcare cost is on the rise and tertiary care (the prevention of disease progression and attendant suffering after it is clinically obvious and a diagnosis is established) seems to be the country's way of dealing with healthcare dilemmas. Due to a lack of primary care providers and the impending physician shortage, the U.S. is currently not focusing on primary prevention of disease and disability, but rather on tertiary prevention. Disease and/or health behaviors are not addressed until an individual has acquired a disease or taken on a negative health behavior. One result can be attributed to lack of health care insurance coverage. GMC wants to be instrumental in shifting the U.S. approach from treatment of disease to its prevention. In particular, GMC wants to concentrate on issues of:
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• Universal healthcare coverage
• The impending physician shortage
• Rising healthcare cost
• Cost containment
• Lack of primary care providers
• Health disparities in underserved populations
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