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Physician workforce
An important focus of recent research is the impact of physician workforce on health outcomes. Currently, the Center for Healthcare Improvement is conducting multiple research studies to examine Georgia's physician supply. Specifically, we are undertaking research to determine how the numbers of primary care and specialist physicians affects stroke, colorectal cancer and all-cause mortality. This research will utilize conventional statistical analysis, as well as Geographical Information Systems (GIS) mapping program to better understand this relationship.
Workshop Speakers
Dr. Kenneth M. Ludmerer, historian and professor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, gave a perspective on American medicine at the Medical College of Georgia, May 24, 2007.
The guest lecturer has been described by the journal Science as "the conscience of American academic medicine." He has authored several books, including "Learning to Heal," (1985) on the creation of the America’s medical education system and "Time to Heal," (1999), which examines American medicine from the turn of the century to the era of managed care. He is on the editorial board of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ journal, Academic Medicine, as well as Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Isis, Journal of the History of Biology and The Pharos.
Dr. Ludmerer is a consultant to the AAMC Task Force on Integrating Education and Patient Care and its Medical School Objectives Project. He is a member of the Midwest Council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Public Policy Roundtable of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and a special adviser to the dean of Florida State University Medical School.
He is past president of the American Association for the History of Medicine and the American Osler Society. He received the 2004 William H. Welch Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine and the 2003 Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education from the AAMC. Dr. Ludmerer received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from The Johns Hopkins University and the Leadership Award in Medical Education from Washington University Department of Medicine in 2000. He received Washington University's Samuel L. Goldstein Leadership Award in Medical Student Education and the Daniel C. Tosteson Award for Leadership in Education from The Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research in 2001.
Dr. G. E. Alan Dever, president and director of Health Services Analysis, Inc., in Atlanta, discussed “A Marketing and Business Model for Improving Perinatal Health Outcomes,” at the Medical College of Georgia Center for Healthcare Improvement noon conference Thursday, August 9, 2007.
Dr. Dever, Professor Emeritus and founding chair of the Department of Community Medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine also discussed, “The Characteristics and Feasibility of Establishing a Medical Practice,” during a family and internal medicine resident conference. In addition, Dr. Dever conducted a Center for Healthcare Improvement Workshop on a Georgia physician database.
Dr. Dever is author of several books including “Managerial Epidemiology, Practice, Methods, and Concept” (Jones and Bartlett, 2006) and “Improving Outcomes in Public Health Practice: Strategy and Methods” (Aspen, 1997).
He was a member of the National Advisory Committee for the Community Health Assessment, Development and Implementation Initiative of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2004 and chaired the Advisory Board for the Public Health Leadership Institute – Georgia in 2003. Dr. Dever co-chaired the Georgia Board for Physician Workforce Physician Workforce Advisory Committee in 1999.
He is the 2003 recipient of the Georgia Rural Health Association’s James Alley Award for Outstanding Achievement in Rural Health Care.
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