Health Professions Briefing Focuses
on Underserved Areas
June 18, 2004 - The Health Professions and Nursing Education
Coalition (HPNEC) sponsored a June 14 lunch briefing on Capitol
Hill to address the importance of the Title VII and VIII health
professions programs to bolstering the supply of providers in underserved
areas. HPNEC is a coalition of more than 50 organizations representing
schools, programs, health professionals, and students dedicated
to ensuring the health care workforce is trained to meet our diverse
nation's health care needs.
Patricia Jennings, associate professor in the Department of Critical
Care at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a physician
assistant at a clinic in Birmingham, described her Title VII-supported
program, which trains physician assistants to work in underserved
areas. Audra Harris and Stephanie Seek, second-year medical students
at Howard University and Georgetown University, respectively, described
how the Title VII funds have enabled them to pursue their goal of
providing care in inner-city communities. Daisy Cruz-Richman, RN,
Ph.D., dean of the SUNY Downstate Medical Center College of Nursing,
discussed how the Title VIII funds help to alleviate the shortage
of nursing faculty at her institution.
The AAMC signed onto a June 18 HPNEC letter, sent to House and
Senate Labor-HHS Appropriations Subcommittee members, urging the
restoration of the Title VII funds and an increase for Title VIII
nursing in the FY 2005 budget.
Information:
Erica Froyd, Director, Public Health and Research Legislative Affairs
AAMC Government Relations
efroyd@aamc.org
(202) 828-0525
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