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Harvard Medical School has suspended funding for its Primary Care Division as part of a broader departmental restructuring effort, prompting students and faculty to circulate a petition calling on HMS Dean Jeffrey S. Flier to reaffirm the School's commitment to primary care education...
...reorganization of this division is really a narrow administrative issue," said HMS Dean of Medical Education Jules L. Dienstag. "It has nothing to do with the commitment of HMS to primary care, which is unchanged, undiluted, and undiminished...
...online petition, including students, residents, faculty, and physicians from HMS and its affiliated hospitals. The petition calls for the School's administration to present a detailed plan of action for expanding institutional support despite the budget cut, expand loan forgiveness initiatives that financially enable students to pursue primary care specialties, support efforts to strengthen primary care in a reformed national health care system, and solicit and implement proposals from the HMS community to improve primary care education...
...realize right now that any serious health care reform that's going to take place in this country will require invigoration of the field of primary care," said Andrew F. Singer, a third-year medical resident training in primary care at the Harvard affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital. "We think that HMS and other leading medical institutions have an important role to play in paving the way forward for primary care...
...Singer, who said he has signed the petition, is also leading the recently-organized Harvard Primary Care Reform Working Group, which aims to collect and synthesize specific ideas and recommendations from individuals across HMS and its affiliated hospital community in order to aid the administration in promoting primary care education...