Save the JMP!

This is the program that former UCSF Chancellor Haile Debas called "the jewel in the crown" of medical education. Its loss would be a shameful prioritization of budget over brilliance.

Keep this fantastic school open to help serve the police health needs of California.

a priceless program for medical education that creates patient-centered-care givers.

As a sociologist with limited expertise on health and medicine, I have learned immeasurably through my interactions and advising of master theses in the JSP program. This would be a loss not just to medicine, but also a broad array of social sciences, as it brings important health and welfare issues to the attention of the larger campus.

Some of the most productive and visionary medical students at UCSF come from the joint program. It would be a travesty to end it.

Berkeley has a reputation for leadership and forward thinking. Likewise, the work of JMP stands for innovation so why should running with the crowd be a reason for the loss of this important program?

The JMP program engages the most brilliant medical students in the US in cross-disciplinary approaches to our communities' health issues. I have for more than 20 years seen JMP students developing new approaches and building learning cohorts to focus on the people I care most about--the poorest among us. The JMP offers me hope that the doctors of tomorrow will participate in making this world a better place for everyone. This is a program that needs more investment, not less. The Rev. Kirsten Snow Spalding Priest in Charge, Church of the Nativity, San Rafael (formerly Chair of the Center for Labor Research and Education, UC Berkeley and Adjunct Professor, Boalt Hall)

I am a college student from California. My mother was a student of the JMP and now has worked there for over a decade. The JMP--her students!--her work! their work! is so much of what keeps her going in life. Growing up, the JMP was an incredible inspiration to me. Every day I saw everyday how important this work is, how UNIQUE this program is, and how dedicated everyone involved is. This program is indispensable. It should be an extremely high priority for the University, for California at large.

Please don't shut down this program. California needs to create more slots for students, not less.

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I am looking forward to applying to this program because of its innovative and comprehensive approach to medicine as a public health model

Please do not close the school. Primary Care is so important and this program has such a unique perspective it should be a model program for other schools.

We need more of this kind of training for doctors, not less.

KEEP THIS PROGRAM GOING!

Rural counties depend on programs such as yours.

This innovative project truly prepares health care practioners for primary community service. There is currently a critical need for broad thinking health care professionals !!

the medical students that come out of this program are incredible

This program should serve as a model for all medical education, cutting it will be a tremendous loss.

The JMP Program produces physicians dedicated to the needs of California's diverse patient population. We need more (not less) programs like JMP!

The UCSF JMP program is a very important medical education program that prepares future leaders in health care.