The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has received $3.84 million in federal grants to support the creation of a new branch of its urban health program, according to a Johns Hopkins news release.
The five-year grant was made available through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It will support the establishment of the Osler Urban Health Residency Track — part of Hopkins' primary care arm, the Osler Medical Housestaff Training Program. In the UHRT, four residents at the university will undergo training in the Department of Medicine with a focus on treating underserved populations. The class of 2011 will be UHRT's first.
UHRT is not to be confused with its sister program, the combined internal medicine-pediatrics urban health residency program, which began training four residents in July 2010.
After three years of training in internal medicine, the graduates of UHRT will receive full tuition support from Baltimore Medical System to earn a master’s degree in public health, business administration or a similar advanced degree in an area of interest while practicing as part-time as primary care physicians at BMS, according to the release.
Read the Johns Hopkins release about the Urban Health Residency Track.
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The five-year grant was made available through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It will support the establishment of the Osler Urban Health Residency Track — part of Hopkins' primary care arm, the Osler Medical Housestaff Training Program. In the UHRT, four residents at the university will undergo training in the Department of Medicine with a focus on treating underserved populations. The class of 2011 will be UHRT's first.
UHRT is not to be confused with its sister program, the combined internal medicine-pediatrics urban health residency program, which began training four residents in July 2010.
After three years of training in internal medicine, the graduates of UHRT will receive full tuition support from Baltimore Medical System to earn a master’s degree in public health, business administration or a similar advanced degree in an area of interest while practicing as part-time as primary care physicians at BMS, according to the release.
Read the Johns Hopkins release about the Urban Health Residency Track.
Read more about Johns Hopkins:
-Johns Hopkins' Urban Health Program Gaining Momentum
-Study Finds CT Scan Use in ERs Tripled Over Decade
-Johns Hopkins Employee Charged with Patients' Identity-Theft, Leading to $600K Shopping Spree