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...Nevertheless, as of Thursday afternoon, over 450 individuals had signed the 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...
...Tarbell said was recently restructured and renamed as the Department of Population Medicine and placed solely under HPHC's administrative purview in order to better reflect its core research and teaching activities. Sharon Torgerson, a spokeswoman for HPHC, said that there are no plans for her organization to financially support the Primary Care Division since they have not in the past, but she did emphasize that HPHC has always supported DACP, and will continue to support it under its new name...
...general internist at Mass. General Hospital, where he initiated the nation's first residency track in primary care internal medicine. He also said that while the financing of health care reform may be controversial, the need to strengthen and reform primary care is well-recognized and enjoys bipartisan support...
...Harvard, where specialty medicine and research have traditionally been heralded, some continue to feel that HMS can and needs to do more to support primary care by providing financial support and elevating the field's stature within the community. The HMS Joseph B. Martin Loan Forgiveness Initiative allows third-year students pursuing specialties in primary care, family medicine, and psychiatry to receive up to $60,000 in debt reduction, but the circulating petition states that loan forgiveness can only be "one component of a multi-pronged strategy to boost student interest" and that HMS must work to do so throughout...
...Solomon said that he has been in frequent contact and communication with Dean Flier, whom he known for over two decades, and says that the Dean definitely "understands the value and importance of primary care" and is looking to find ways to support primary care in a difficult financial environment...