Save the JMP!

The JMP program is a treasure; it selects and trains medical students who go on to become critical thinkers and leaders in the struggle to make medicine accessible and cutting edge.

Is this a joke?...

We wholeheartedly support the efforts to save the JMP at Berkley

I know a wonderful physician who came out of this program!

Please save this wonderful program.

The Joint Medical Program has offered innovations in medical education with a focus on much needed public and population health, quality and safety in health care. The quality of the program and humane approach of the graduates has contributed to health care in CA and across the US. At a time that there is call for improving graduate medical education to support interprofessional team work in health care, the JMP has been a leader. The cost savings of closing the program are shortsighted. The JMP offers the kind of innovation in medical education program that should not only be supported, but expanded in the USE to address the IOM call to "Cross the Quality Chasm". and advance population health.

This is an amazing program that adds great value to the medical field.

This program was instrumental in my choosing a research area with a huge public health impact, cigarettes smoking. As a Pediatrician, I have studies the impact of tobacco smoking during pregnancy and infancy, and, secondhand smoking during childhood. JMP broadened by medical viewpoint to look at the patient as a whole person and how nonmedical aspects affect their health. Now semi-retired, it gives me great pleasure to volunteer in the Zuckerberg SFGH Pediatric clinic, which serves the lower SES in SF. The education I received at JMP continues to serve me well.

This is a great program. The faculty and students were just great and interacting with all disciplines of health care and within their own program. It would be ashamed to cut this wonderful program.

This is such an important program and would be a huge loss to our future medical community if it was closed.

This country needs high quality MDs of the caliber generated every year by the UCSF JMP.

We had an excellent medical education in the JMP and even had a collective voice on how it could be improved. As an attending at Children's Hospital Oakland for some years I came to value that experience even more: I had also learned how to teach. Now I see that some other medical school programs are following our example.... Keep our JMP alive!

The contributions of the JMP to the physician workforce must continue! The program's shining reputation and history of producing outstanding graduates speaks volumes of its value to the community.

I credit the unique community, forward-thinking culture, and progressive pedagogy of the Joint Medical Program with making me the primary care physician dedicated to California's underserved that I am today. Losing the Joint Medical Program would been a blow to our primary care workforce. At a time of health care reform with uninsured patients finally getting access, we need more broadly trained compassionate primary care physicians to care for these patients. Now more then ever, we need fully funded primary care training programs that start early in a physician's career. The Joint Medical Program is the best of such programs and has served as an example to others across the globe.

I have had a wonderful career in a county hospital providing for those with less resources and initiating programs to help enhance care for those individuals, I credit the Joint Medical Program for helping in a profound way develop this passion for myself and other primary care physicians

We should not even be considering cutting programs that train our next generation of medical professionals.

I was a student of that program and it would be a shame if it is closed.

My daughter graduated from JMP. She has served her community well for over 2 decades. Thoughtful patient oriented primary care skills taught by JMP. It should be an expanded program.

The JMP is a unique and important place where future medical leaders are trained and inspired. It would be a travesty to both the UC system as well as to California more generally, if this program were to be cut.

My partner is in this program. I can't praise the JMP enough. This is a unique program that's teaching students to be exceptionally thoughtful, engaged physicians. There should be more JMP, not less!