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CONSENT
Bill No: ACR 1
Author: Medina (D)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 9-0, 6/5/13
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Block, Correa, Hancock, Hueso, Huff,
Monning, Torres
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 71-0, 3/21/13 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT : University of California: UC Riverside School of
Medicine
SOURCE : California Medical Association
DIGEST : This resolution declares that the University of
California, Riverside (UCR) School of Medicine serves an
important role in training a diverse workforce of physicians and
providing healthcare to the underserved communities of the
Inland Empire region of California.
ANALYSIS :
This resolution:
1. Provides that the mission of the UCR School of Medicine is to
improve the health of the people of California, and to serve
Inland Southern California by training a diverse workforce of
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physicians and by developing innovative research and health
care delivery programs that will improve the health of the
medically underserved in the region and become models to be
emulated through the state and the nation.
2. States that Inland Southern California is vastly
undersupplied with respect to physicians and this region of
California has the lowest supply of physicians per capita
than any other region of the state, according to the
California HealthCare Foundation. Indicates that in primary
care specialties alone, many California counties have far
fewer than the 60 to 80 primary care physicians per 100,000
people, which is considered sufficient to meet demand; the
Inland Empire has approximately 40 primary care physicians
per 100,000 residents. Further states that Latinos, African
Americans, and Native Americans are vastly underrepresented
in the physician workforce, and, in the Inland Empire alone,
more than 45% of the population is Latino, compared to just
5% of the physicians in the region. States that the Inland
Southern California also faces a dire health situation,
trailing behind much of the state in several key health
indicators, including coronary heart disease and diabetes.
3. Indicates that the UCR School of Medicine has received
preliminary accreditation from the Liaison Committee on
Medical Education, the national accrediting body for
allopathic, or M.D.-granting medical schools, which enables
the UCR School of Medicine to begin recruiting students to
enroll in an inaugural class in August 2013. States that to
meet the region's workforce needs and improve the health of
the population, the UCR School of Medicine will capitalize on
UCR's nationally recognized diversity and ethnic diversity of
the region by expanding the educational pipeline into
medicine. States that the UCR School of Medicine will also
expand UCR's strength in basic health sciences research to
build research expertise in population health and health
outcomes research.
4. Provides that the UCR is building its medical school from a
long history of training physicians in partnership with the
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) David Geffen
School of Medicine. States that the UCR/UCLA Thomas Haider
Program in Biomedical Sciences currently educates 28
first-year and 28 second-year medical students. Operating
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for more than 30 years, this partnership with the UCLA School
of Medicine has produced more than 700 physicians. States
that drawing from UCR's diverse undergraduate population, the
UCR/UCLA Thomas Haider Program in Biomedical Sciences has
established a successful track record of recruiting,
retaining, and graduating highly qualified medical students
from groups that are underrepresented in medicine. A
significant number of programs and partnerships currently
exist that serve potential medical school applicants through
mentorship, pipeline programs, and leadership training.
This resolution declares that the UCR School of Medicine serves
an important role in training a diverse workforce of physicians
and providing healthcare to the underserved communities of the
Inland Empire region of California.
Prior legislation . AB 1309 (Miller, 2012) would have
appropriated $15 million to the UCR School of Medicine. This
bill died in the Senate.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/5/13)
California Medical Association (source)
University of California
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 71-0, 3/21/13
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom,
Blumenfield, Bocanegra, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier,
Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gordon, Gorell, Hagman,
Hall, Harkey, Roger Hern�ndez, Jones, Jones-Sawyer, Levine,
Linder, Logue, Maienschein, Mansoor, Medina, Melendez,
Mitchell, Morrell, Mullin, Nazarian, Nestande, Pan, Patterson,
Perea, V. Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Salas,
Skinner, Stone, Ting, Torres, Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wilk,
Williams, Yamada, John A. P�rez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Bonilla, Gray, Grove, Holden, Lowenthal,
Muratsuchi, Olsen, Wieckowski, Vacancy
PQ:k:nl 6/6/13 Senate Floor Analyses
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SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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