Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) has been awarded a $795,000, 5-year HRSA grant to launch an innovative curriculum for addressing the national shortage of primary care physicians while helping to improve the health of Camden residents. This is the first grant awarded to CMSRU.<\/p>\n
The grant will help establish CMSRU\u2019s Ambulatory Clerkship — a primary care clinic site for Camden residents that will include Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Psychiatry. Under the supervision of Cooper faculty, the Ambulatory Clerkship will immerse students in all aspects of primary care, for all ages.<\/p>\n
The Ambulatory Clerkship provides both early and continuing clinical experiences for students and a significant benefit to the community. \u201cDuring the Ambulatory Clerkship, students will learn patient care while participating in rewarding service to the community,\u201d explains Vijay Rajput, MD, Assistant Dean for Curriculum at CMSRU and project director. \u201cWe believe this will motivate some to choose careers in primary care.\u201d<\/p>\n
CMSRU\u2019s Ambulatory Clerkship is a four year program, and begins week three of medical school. In addition to experiencing clinical care, students will learn about the barriers many patients face because of economic distress, disabilities, mental illness, and other social and family issues. They will also experience the management challenges and rewards of running a clinic.<\/p>\n
The U.S. currently has 352,908 primary care doctors, and the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) estimates that 45,000 more will be needed by 2020. If not aggressively addressed, the shortage of primary care could create a significant health crisis due to limited or no access and delayed treatment for serious conditions.<\/p>\n
Goals of CMSRU\u00a0Ambulatory Clerkship<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Provide early exposure for students to a clinical environment<\/p>\n \u2022 Foster community health advocacy skills<\/p>\n \u2022 Enable students to provide a continuum of care for their\u00a0patients in a well-supervised setting<\/p>\n \u2022 Provide access to quality healthcare for uninsured and\u00a0underinsured patients in the city of Camden<\/p>\n \u2022 Reduce healthcare disparities within the City\u2019s population<\/p>\n Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) has been awarded a $795,000, 5-year HRSA grant to launch an innovative curriculum for addressing the national shortage of primary care physicians while helping to improve the health of Camden residents. This is the first grant awarded to CMSRU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,55,4],"tags":[120,119],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-dzarnosky","4":"has-excerpt","5":"post-992","7":"format-standard","8":"category-medical-education","9":"category-new-initiatives","10":"category-news-updates","11":"post_tag-ambulatory-clerkship","12":"post_tag-cooper-medical-school-of-rowan-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/sjmedicalreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"