As a Cal alumnus and Chairman of the Board of Directors for a multi-site Community Health Center, I can attest to the unfulfilled need for community medicine based Primary Care Physicians. I urge UCBerkeley and the School of Public Health (where I took my first PH classes) to continue the JMP.
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Larisa
10 years ago
As an RN from Florida I can tell you that we NEED more doctors who understand the whole patient. Do not cut a program that provides the community with such doctors.
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Callan Fockele
10 years ago
I would not be the person or the future physician I am today without the creative and holistic nature of the UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program, which is not only located within a school of public health but is also dedicated to addressing health disparities in the clinic and on the streets. It would be a tragedy for this unique program to disappear.
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Vicky Gomez
10 years ago
Please keep supporting this valuable program!
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Melissa Palma
10 years ago
Health is primary! We should be encouraging more young doctors to train in primary care and understand social determinants of health.
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Seth Landefeld
10 years ago
The JMP has produced hundreds of great doctors, great teachers, great investigators, and great leaders. Defunding JMP just doesn't make sense. It's a lose-lose-lose for UCB, for medical students, and for the people of California.
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Michele Moss
10 years ago
This sounds like a program that should be expanded not destroyed
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Julianna Deardorff
10 years ago
The students I have mentored in the JMP program are exceptional. It would be a tragedy to lose this program. A huge loss to the UC Berkeley campus and to the profession. These students receive unparalleled cross-disciplinary training.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Make Health Primary!
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Colleen Andersen
10 years ago
CA needs MORE well trained family physicians. Let's not lose this important program.
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Charlene motta
10 years ago
I agree we need to encourage more to go to primary care.
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T Simas
10 years ago
This program is the type of program that should be expanded, not eliminated.
After our total infrastructure gets gutted, then what?
We need to find the money to grow these programs.
Let's put pressure on the "powers that be", reduce the cost of the sports program, and get creative with finding money, and spend it wisely.
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Jayme Mulkey Congdon
10 years ago
The JMP fosters a shared appreciation of the wholeness of a patient within the context of her family unit, her community, and our society. It is a model for restoring the humanity in clinical care and in medical education. I hope the JMP continues to train thoughtful and creative physicians for generations to come!
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Anonymous
10 years ago
There must be other options, go deeper into your think tank.
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Art Reingold
10 years ago
How incredibly sad and counter-productive, to close such nationally renowned program that attracts the very best and brightest. In my 30+ year academic career, i have had 4 truly brilliant trainees/students, out of the hundreds i have mentored, and 3 of those 4 were JMP students. That is one indication of what an extraordinary program it is. I also co-chaired a bi-campus assessment of the JMP some years ago, and know full well from that extensive review what a gem this program is. It is an outrage that anyone would even consider closing it.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
A primary care program with an emphasis on public is crucial for training the physicians of the future. It would be a shame to lose such a program.
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Jo M Livingston
10 years ago
Not just California, but the whole country needs Primary Care Physicians. We need more programs like this one.
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Sandra Greenwood
10 years ago
My dear friends, Drs. Melanie Thomas and Vijay Bhabdari graduated from this program, and there are no finer doctors anywhere! Please help produce other skilled doctors, and keep this program ongoing!
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Lee Riley
10 years ago
It's appalling that UC Berkeley spent millions to renovate a football stadium but sees nothing wrong about closing an educational program designed to improve the lives of people living in California. It's leadership has no sense of what's really important.
As a Cal alumnus and Chairman of the Board of Directors for a multi-site Community Health Center, I can attest to the unfulfilled need for community medicine based Primary Care Physicians. I urge UCBerkeley and the School of Public Health (where I took my first PH classes) to continue the JMP.
As an RN from Florida I can tell you that we NEED more doctors who understand the whole patient. Do not cut a program that provides the community with such doctors.
I would not be the person or the future physician I am today without the creative and holistic nature of the UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program, which is not only located within a school of public health but is also dedicated to addressing health disparities in the clinic and on the streets. It would be a tragedy for this unique program to disappear.
Please keep supporting this valuable program!
Health is primary! We should be encouraging more young doctors to train in primary care and understand social determinants of health.
The JMP has produced hundreds of great doctors, great teachers, great investigators, and great leaders. Defunding JMP just doesn't make sense. It's a lose-lose-lose for UCB, for medical students, and for the people of California.
This sounds like a program that should be expanded not destroyed
The students I have mentored in the JMP program are exceptional. It would be a tragedy to lose this program. A huge loss to the UC Berkeley campus and to the profession. These students receive unparalleled cross-disciplinary training.
Make Health Primary!
CA needs MORE well trained family physicians. Let's not lose this important program.
I agree we need to encourage more to go to primary care.
This program is the type of program that should be expanded, not eliminated. After our total infrastructure gets gutted, then what? We need to find the money to grow these programs. Let's put pressure on the "powers that be", reduce the cost of the sports program, and get creative with finding money, and spend it wisely.
The JMP fosters a shared appreciation of the wholeness of a patient within the context of her family unit, her community, and our society. It is a model for restoring the humanity in clinical care and in medical education. I hope the JMP continues to train thoughtful and creative physicians for generations to come!
There must be other options, go deeper into your think tank.
How incredibly sad and counter-productive, to close such nationally renowned program that attracts the very best and brightest. In my 30+ year academic career, i have had 4 truly brilliant trainees/students, out of the hundreds i have mentored, and 3 of those 4 were JMP students. That is one indication of what an extraordinary program it is. I also co-chaired a bi-campus assessment of the JMP some years ago, and know full well from that extensive review what a gem this program is. It is an outrage that anyone would even consider closing it.
A primary care program with an emphasis on public is crucial for training the physicians of the future. It would be a shame to lose such a program.
Not just California, but the whole country needs Primary Care Physicians. We need more programs like this one.
My dear friends, Drs. Melanie Thomas and Vijay Bhabdari graduated from this program, and there are no finer doctors anywhere! Please help produce other skilled doctors, and keep this program ongoing!
It's appalling that UC Berkeley spent millions to renovate a football stadium but sees nothing wrong about closing an educational program designed to improve the lives of people living in California. It's leadership has no sense of what's really important.
Please protect this wonderful program!