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The
Family Care Research Program is a collaborative, interdisciplinary
effort by faculty from the Michigan State University Colleges
of Nursing and
Human
Medicine and the Department of Family Medicine.
The primary foci of the FCRP projects are:
- to gain increased knowledge about how patients and families
face the burden of providing care in a transforming health
care system;
- to better understand how families learn to care; and
- to disseminate this knowledge and influence health care
reform and policy.
GRIN is a statewide primary care research network of office practices in Family Medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, and independent-practice nursing. Its goal is to assist primary care researchers to conduct studies in primary care settings. GRIN is overseen by a board representing community physicians, academic departments, and patients.
Contact GRIN Coordinator:
Annette Sokolnicki,
MSU Department of Family Medicine,
Tower B B106 Clinical Center,
East Lansing, MI 48824.
Office: 517-884-0421;
Fax: 517-355-7700; annette.sokolnicki@hc.msu.edu.
This national course, now in its ninth season, is
intended to be an advanced course of study. It will focus on the
new, the controversial, and the systematic challenging of current
practice. The target audiences for this course are family
physicians and general internists desiring a vigorous review of
the evidence supporting or refuting day-to-day assessment and
treatment modalities for the topics covered in this series. The
course is also appropriate for nurse practitioners and physician
assistants working in the field of primary care. It is jointly
sponsored by Primary Care Medical Abstracts, the Department of
Family Medicine of Michigan State University College of Human
Medicine, and the Western Journal of Medicine.
The National Family Medicine Board Review course is intended to
be a four-day, 39-hour total immersion "boot-camp" in the
factual database of family medicine. At the conclusion,
participants, through repetition, will have learned the key
information needed to pass family medicine certification and
recertification examinations. The course is sponsored by the
Department of Family Medicine, Michigan State University; The
Journal of Family Practice, and Primary Care Medical Abstracts. |
