(NMF) Primary Care Leadership Program (PCLP) - an effort co-founded by GE Foundation that aims to improve diversity in medicine and expand access to primary care in underserved communities. Destinee is a scholar in the National Medical Fellowships, Inc. Today, there is an increasing focus in the medical field on closing this diversity gap. Latinos are 18.5 percent of the country, but only 5.8 percent of physicians and 4 percent of nurses. population, they make up only 5 percent of doctors. For example, while African Americans comprise 13.4 percent of the U.S.
While there have been slow gains in recent years, the medical community struggles to grow a representative pipeline of doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers from underrepresented minority groups. They will have the chance to dramatically change the lives of those in the local community by changing the way care is organized and delivered to patients.“When I look around, the vast majority of medical students and the vast majority of doctors don't look anything like me,” says Destinee Shipley, a first-year medical student at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta and an African American woman. "These students will receive a unique experience not afforded to their peers. "Community health centers serve populations that are forgotten and left behind by other healthcare providers," said NMF board member H. In its inaugural year, thirty-eight PCLP scholars have been assigned to community health centers in areas with a shortage of general practitioners in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Nashville, and Jackson, Mississippi.Īll scholars, who were accepted into the program after being ranked by a faculty and regional advisory board and NMF's National Advisory Committee, will receive leadership development, mentoring, and networking opportunities with NMF alumni while completing two hundred service-learning hours. The GE Foundation has announced a two-year, $2.3 million grant to National Medical Fellowships to launch a program that will provide prospective healthcare professionals with the opportunity to experience primary care practice in community health centers nationwide.īuilding on GE's $50 million commitment to increase access to health care through its Developing Health initiative, the GE-NMF Primary Care Leadership Program aims to draw future health professionals into primary care and build the capacity of community health centers.
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