Physicians

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How Community Colleges Can Help End California’s Doctor Shortage

December 4, 2018

Marco Angulo, MD, chose to practice family medicine in a community clinic close to where he grew up. His educational path is an important model that could help ease the primary care physician shortage in California.

November 1, 2018

Webinar — Accelerating Opioid Safety: Provider Toolkit

November 1, 2018

Learn about best practices in launching or expanding an opioid safety initiative within ambulatory care practices.

Journey to Freedom Passes Through Health Clinics

October 22, 2018

Behavioral Health, Medi-Cal

The Transitions Clinic Network is a national network of medical programs for recently released prisoners with chronic diseases. The clinic makes connections with former inmates and provides care and support.

Health Care’s Climate Change

October 18, 2018

Xenia Shih Bion

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: The US health care system ranks seventh among worldwide producers of carbon dioxide, the key cause of global warming, rising sea levels, and many resulting public health issues. Industry leaders are calling for urgent action.

California’s Physician Assistants: How Scope of Practice Laws Impact Care

Timothy Bates, Joanne Spetz, Miranda Werts

Health Care Costs, Workforce

Physician assistants (PAs) provide high-quality care and are more likely to work in rural areas and with underserved populations than are physicians. This paper offers an overview of how PAs operate in California, and explores the research behind the evidence for practice expansion.

American Health Systems Use Technology to Empower Primary Care Docs

September 12, 2018

Telehealth, Workforce

Many health care systems are changing the way they operate and embracing new technologies to better organize care delivery while addressing the worsening shortage of physicians.

California’s Nurse Practitioners: How Scope of Practice Laws Impact Care

California is one of a handful of states that restricts nurse practitioners' ability to work without physician oversight. This paper examines how these restrictions impact care.

A Guide to Graduate Medical Education Funding in California

University of California, San Francisco, The Robert Graham Center

This comprehensive overview describes the landscape of graduate medical education (GME) funding in California, including sources, amounts, and distribution across the state. This series also includes a report outlining recommendations for expanding GME and seven issue briefs covering key issues facing GME in this state.

Doctors Are Changing San Diego’s Opioid Prescribing Practices

A large group of San Diego physicians is making progress against the opioid epidemic by educating prescribers and patients about ways to change longstanding practices.

California’s Physician Supply and Distribution: Headed for a Drought?

Janet Coffman, Margaret Fix, MPH, Michelle Ko

According to data from physician surveys, California's medical doctors are unevenly distributed across the state, and new doctors aren't being trained in great enough numbers to address this imbalance.

Bourdain on Addiction: There Is No Them — There Is Only Us

Xenia Shih Bion

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: The late chef, author, and television personality Anthony Bourdain, who recovered from heroin addiction in the 1980s, used his global platform to educate the public about the opioid crisis.

The Virtual Nurse Will See You Now

Xenia Shih Bion

Telehealth, Workforce

Stories That Caught Our Attention This Week: As providers adopt new technologies, the debate over high-tech health care delivery has intensified. What does the future hold?

More High-Touch Than High-Tech, Providers Show Up at Seniors’ Front Doors

Workforce, Telehealth

The population of seniors is growing rapidly while the physician supply shrinks — especially among primary care doctors and geriatricians. Many health care organizations are exploring a surprising solution: old-fashioned house calls mixed with new technology.

SB 1004 Implementation Technical Assistance Series: Strategies for Addressing Common Challenges

Serious Illness & End-of-Life Care

This webinar will highlight findings from the recent strategy exchange workshops as well as what we learned from surveys completed by plans and providers describing their early experiences with SB 1004 implementation.