Looking toward the Future

Looking Toward the Future
by: Lars C. Larsen, Co-Director, Generalist Physician Program

Table of Contents

New Ventures in Health

Director's Corner

Adventure in Excellence

Rural Health Scholars

A Dose of Leadership Training

Staff Notes

About the ECU Generalist

ECU Generalist Archive

Main Menu

"Fulfillment of

these goals by

May 2000,

will require the

continued hard

work and

support of

everyone

involved with

GPP activities.

It also offers

the unique

opportunity to

help our

students,

community

practitioners,

and the people

served by our

educational

and health care

systems.

The renewal

of commitment

toward this

ideal is what

Phase II is

all about."

East Carolina University School of Medicine was notified in May that the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation had awarded full grant funding to the Phase II application of the ECU Generalist Physician Program. (GPP). This award represents recognition of the accomplishments at ECU during Phase I and the commitment of University Medical Center and external partners to support worthwhile initiatives beyond the Phase II funding cycle. The award also serves as evidence of the daily support of hundreds of people involved with GPP related activities including Medical faculty and administration, community preceptors and leaders, state agencies and many others. For those of us in GPP administration, it is humbling and heartwarming to know the Phase II award would not have been possible without their support!

Phase II activities included in the grant application were designed to build upon suceessful programs initiated during Phase I in four grant areas: premedical; undergraduate (medical school); graduate (residency); and practice support and entry.

Goals and objectives for Phase II are as follows.

Premedical Goals:
1) Continue to enhance and

support Phase I initiatives

such as:

Community Health Access Groups,

Premedical Advisors Meeting,

Ventures into Health Careers.

2) Develop premedical MBA

training options.

Undergraduate Goals:

1) Continue to support and

integrate generalism in the

undergraduate curriculum

through:

Clinical Skills courses,

Introduction to Medicine,

MedPAC,

ECU-SOM,

generalist curriculum

needs assessment.

2) The addition of two community

based teaching practices

each year.

3) Develop at least two pilot

projects in service

learning curricula.

4) Develop and support student

volunteerism, service learning

and care for underserved

populations in the

SOM curriculum.

5) Continue faculty

development programs for

community preceptors.

6) Expand support for

community preceptors:

Establish a central

point of contact in the

SOM for preceptors; as

faculty for SOM;

Establish a GPP

homepage site.

7) Monitor and evaluate

SOM ambulatory

education activities.

8) Continue to sponsor and

support generalist

student initiatives

such as the

Rural Health

Scholars Program,

Generalist student

interest groups,

ECU-SOM Primary

Care Week,

GPIT Leadership Institute.

9) Development of graduate

MBA options.

Graduate Goals:

To develop joint training opportunities for primary care residents such as:

Primary Care

Residents Day,

Practice management

seminars,

Development of a primary

care residency MBA program,
and continued collaboration with the NC Office of Rural Health in support of the stipend program for primary care residents.

Practice Entry and Support Goals:

1) Continue to support the

practice management

efforts of HealthEast.

2) Continue to expand

televideo linkages.

3) Continue the Generalist

Fellowship in

Procedural Skills.

4) Provide locum tenens

relief to eastern North

Carolina practitioners.

5) Design MBA option for

generalist's in practice.

Additional Goals:

1) Collaborate with others in

the SOM to secure

additional funding

beyond Phase II.

2) Promote generalist

education beyond

Phase II funding.

3) Enhance learner

knowledge in

generalist topics.