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Atul Grover, MD, PhD, explains the critical role of health policy education, and how policy fluency can better prepare future physicians.
Atul Grover, MD, PhD, describes the expanding roles of nonphysicians in primary care, and how the new RAND-AAMC workforce model can account for these shifts.
Developed by the AAMC and RAND, the new workforce projections model can account for the shifting roles of nonphysicians and its impacts on future shortages.
Atul Grover, MD, PhD, and Jonathan Jaffery, MD, MS, MMM, discuss misrepresentations of health system consolidation and why provider adaption is crucial.
Atul Grover, MD, PhD, explores complexities in assessing the benefits of health systems and hospitals, and what’s at stake for patients and communities.
Community health centers are a vital part of the clinical care foundation actively working to improve the health status of rural communities.
Atul Grover, MD, PhD, discusses policy priorities for solving health workforce shortages, and the institute’s contributions to improve workforce projections.
AAMC’s updated analysis of the training location preferences of U.S. MDs two years after Dobbs has been cited by several U.S. senators at the U.S Capitol.
During this Mental Health Awareness Month, the U.S. continues to grapple with a mental health crisis that must be solved through targeted policy solutions.
Atul Grover, MD, PhD, discusses consolidation in the U.S. health care system, and why comparing market share of both health systems and insurers is necessary.
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