RSVP BY FRIDAY, SEPT. 9. SEATING IS LIMITED, ALL EVENTS ARE FREE TO ATTEND:
The 2nd ANNUAL PRIMARY CARE WEEK
Presented by
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INTER-UNIVERSITY CONSORTIUM OF PRIMARY CARE (SCIUC-PC)
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science College of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Purpose
Primary Care Week 2011 (PCW 2011) is an event to bring together three medical universities in the Los Angeles region to highlight, educate, and celebrate the importance of primary care within our institutions and communities. This event will bring medical students, pre‐med students, faculty, health care professionals, community advocates, and policy makers together to discuss its need, importance, and direction in underserved populations, as well as its role in health care reform. The goal of PCW 2011 is to draw attention to increasing the quality of educational programs for future primary care physicians, gain a better understanding of the new health care reform provisions and its impact on medical services/models, and promote patient‐centered services, regardless of ethnicity, race and other factors, and to present students and health care providers with the resources to address these inequalities.
Event Description
This 3‐day event will consist of parallel afternoon speaker panels at the KECK‐USC and UCLA/CDU medical campuses. There will be two clinic site tours and special community health clinic speaker panels on Sept. 13 and Sept. 15. This year’s clinic sites are St. John’s Well Child and Family Clinic and the Venice Family Clinic. The three universities will also host a shared reception at the California Endowment with speakers Dr. Robert Ross, President of the CA Endowment, Dr. Mitch Katz, Medical Chief of the LA County Dept. of Health and Human Services, Dr. David Carlisle, current CDU President and past Director of OSHPD, and the three deans of the universities—Dean Carmen Puliafito of KECK‐USC, Dean and Provost Richard Baker of CDU, and Dean Eugene Washington of UCLA. These events are open to all the universities’ pre‐med students, 1st‐4th year medical students, other health care professional students including pharmacy, OT, PA, PT, social work and dentistry, faculty, alumni, and community clinics’ healthcare providers, and public health advocates.
Purpose
Primary Care Week 2011 (PCW 2011) is an event to bring together three medical universities in the Los Angeles region to highlight, educate, and celebrate the importance of primary care within our institutions and communities. This event will bring medical students, pre‐med students, faculty, health care professionals, community advocates, and policy makers together to discuss its need, importance, and direction in underserved populations, as well as its role in health care reform. The goal of PCW 2011 is to draw attention to increasing the quality of educational programs for future primary care physicians, gain a better understanding of the new health care reform provisions and its impact on medical services/models, and promote patient‐centered services, regardless of ethnicity, race and other factors, and to present students and health care providers with the resources to address these inequalities.
Event Description
This 3‐day event will consist of parallel afternoon speaker panels at the KECK‐USC and UCLA/CDU medical campuses. There will be two clinic site tours and special community health clinic speaker panels on Sept. 13 and Sept. 15. This year’s clinic sites are St. John’s Well Child and Family Clinic and the Venice Family Clinic. The three universities will also host a shared reception at the California Endowment with speakers Dr. Robert Ross, President of the CA Endowment, Dr. Mitch Katz, Medical Chief of the LA County Dept. of Health and Human Services, Dr. David Carlisle, current CDU President and past Director of OSHPD, and the three deans of the universities—Dean Carmen Puliafito of KECK‐USC, Dean and Provost Richard Baker of CDU, and Dean Eugene Washington of UCLA. These events are open to all the universities’ pre‐med students, 1st‐4th year medical students, other health care professional students including pharmacy, OT, PA, PT, social work and dentistry, faculty, alumni, and community clinics’ healthcare providers, and public health advocates.
For more information, please email Yvonne Banzali or call 323‐442‐1678.
