California Oregon Medical Partnership to Address Disparities in Rural Education and Health
What is COMPADRE?
COMPADRE is a robust collaboration between UC Davis and OHSU medical schools and over 30 graduate medical education (GME) programs across 10 health care systems throughout northern California and Oregon.
COMPADRE emerged out of our concern to address persistent physician shortages in underserved urban, rural, and tribal communities that result in health disparities due to community members’ limited access to adequate health care.
COMPADRE aims to transform the physician workforce by training physicians who are better prepared, more equitably distributed across the region, and who are deeply connected to underserved communities.
As an AMA Reimagining Residency Initiative, we see the importance of strategically collaborating among medical schools, local health care systems, GME programs, and community partners to develop robust pathways from medical school to independent clinical practice.
For more information about the AMA Reimagining Residency project and the ACE initiative, please visit http://changemeded.org.
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COMPADRE: Regionally-Focused Medical Education in California and Oregon