Word: wertheim
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would like to contribute to changing that. So while he was accepted to nine U.S. medical schools last year after graduating from Miami's Florida International University, he decided to stay at FIU and join the first class of its new Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine - largely because the school focuses on training primary-care physicians who hook up with the kind of communities Lau hails from. In fact, under the innovative FIU curriculum that started in August, those neighborhoods are laboratories for students like Lau, who, starting in their second year, will go into disadvantaged pockets like Miami Gardens...
...Wertheim College is an idea that couldn't have come at a better time - not just for low-income communities in South Florida and elsewhere, but also for the broader cause of health-care reform. The U.S.'s chronic shortage of primary-care doctors has become "catastrophic," says Dr. Joseph Stubbs, president of the Philadelphia-based American College of Physicians, one of the nation's largest medical organizations. "If things continue as they are," says Stubbs, "by 2025, the U.S. will be 45,000 primary-care physicians short." That dearth of first-level preventive care will push even more...
...have a health-care system today that is geared toward the management of acute episodes instead of the appropriate preventive measures you see in other countries," says Dr. John Rock, dean of Wertheim College. "Because of the lack of family doctors, we're not dealing with obesity; we're dealing with the expensive diabetes hospitalizations that result from the obesity." (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...Wertheim College is not the first U.S. medical school to train community-based primary-care physicians. (Florida State University's medical school, for example, lets its third-year students do clinical work in rural areas of the state's Panhandle.) But it's considered the first to make that mission its raison d'être. Under its NeighborhoodHELP (Health Education Learning Program) scheme, which will forge permanent relationships with underserved zones of Miami, students are assigned a household along with counterparts from fields like nursing, social work and public health. Rock developed the idea with FIU's Dr. Pedro Greer...
...TIME's Short List review of Wertheim's book...