August 2007
The Duluth Campus Family Medicine department has received $710,000 from HRSA for training in primary care medicine. The grant supports programs with four objectives: improving the teaching of diagnostic methods using portable or hand-carried ultrasound devices; increasing interprofessional education with a pilot program that will include students from the College of Pharmacy branch on the Duluth campus; implementing an Images and Cultures program that enhances cultural understanding; and, supporting efforts to recruit students into family medicine by increasing the activities of the Family Medicine Interest Group. Jim Boulger, Ph.D. and Ruth Westra, D.O., MPH are the principal investigators for the HRSA grant.
In addition, the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences has given a three-year Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award supporting a Postdoctoral Training Program in Duluth. The grant of more than $970,000 is designed to train young scientists to be more effective researchers and teachers at traditional academic institutions and schools with disadvantaged populations. The research involves a collaboration with the Medical School, Lake Superior College in Duluth, and Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet. George Trachte, Ph.D., and Horace Loh, Ph.D., are the principal investigators.
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