Fellowships
Section: Fellowships
Community Health Center Director Development - This fellowship is designed to train future physician leaders to become medical directors of Community Health Centers (CHCs). The fellow will provide Community-Oriented Primary Care in a medically underserved community, and receive faculty development training in preparation to becoming a role model and future teacher of medical students, residents and other health professionals. The fellow will serve as an instructor and junior faculty member, assisting other department faculty in several aspects of teaching, research, and clinical practice.
Primary Care Health Policy - A fellowship to train leaders and educators in the application of informatics tools to the practice and teaching of primary care. The curriculum includes information retrieval and evidence based medicine, electronic medical records, coding of health information in primary care, development of interactive web pages, use of database systems, research skills including system evaluation and support of practice-based research networks, etc. The fellowship will involve approximately half-time in clinical work and half-time in academic work.
CURRENT FELLOWS
Primary Care Health Policy Fellow 2009-2010
Matthew T. Burke, M.D.
Dr. Matthew Burke is a graduate of Dartmouth College (A.B., History and Biology) and Albany Medical College (M.D.). He completed his residency in Family Medicine at Brown University in 2009 and has held a strong interest in health policy since medical school. Dr. Burke has previously lobbied for reform on behalf of the AMA and AAFP, as well as having done comparative post doctoral education research at the University of Zagreb public health school in Croatia. He has strong interests in global health policy as well as Health Information Technology, especially as it pertains to the implementation of Patient Centered Medical Homes. He will be doing policy research at the Robert Graham Center while doing clinical work at Unity Health Care.
Community Health Center Director Development Fellow 2009-2010
Open Enrollment. Please send CV and a letter of interest to Kathleen McNamara at kab75@georgetown.edu . For inquiries, call 202-687-0925.