Influencing Academic Health Centers
January 1, 1999 | Book
This chapter of the Anthology takes on a big topic: the interaction between the Foundation and the nation's academic health centers.
Academic Health Centers
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Developing a Research and Education Agenda to Improve End-of-Life Care in Intensive Care Units
May 15, 2008 | Program Result Report
With $107,906 from the Special Opportunities Fund of from RWJF's Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care national program, researchers from the University of Washington organized and convened a workshop.
Symposium on the Commercialization of Academia
July 14, 2008 | Program Result Report
Faculty at Emory University convened a symposium to explore the potential benefits to academic institutions as they increasingly develop new commercial ventures, and the potential threats they face to their integrity and their academic mission.
Evaluation of Achieving Competence Today (ACT)
January 2, 2007 | Evaluation
Achieving Competence Today (ACT) was a program of Partnerships for Quality Education, a national initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Michael Yedidia, Ph.D., and Colleen Gillespie, Ph.D., of Rutgers University conducted an evaluation of ACT through a post-training survey of ACT II learners, and pre- and post-training study of ACT III learners and leaders.
Academic Health Care Consortium in Illinois Pilots Online Learning Exchange for Its Members
February 1, 2007 | Program Result Report
Staff of University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) developed the UHC Learning Exchange, an online platform on which academic health care organizations can develop and share courses, best practices and organization-specific information.
Focusing on Primary Care at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center
July 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The University of Massachusetts Medical Center developed a strategy to increase to 50 percent both the proportion of entering students interested in primary care and the proportion of graduating students intending to practice as generalists.
Future of Biomedical Science Depends on Bedside Observations and Lab Work
August 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The first annual meeting was held in Atlantic City, N.J., April 30-May 2, 1999, and was attended by 131 physician-scientists, many of whom were presenters at the conference.
Alliances Between Academic Health Centers and Historically Black Colleges and Universities Address Disparities
October 22, 2010 | Program Result Report
The Sullivan Alliance to Transform the Health Professions fostered formal relationships between historically Black colleges and universities and health professions schools with few minority students.
Social Relationships and Depression: Ten-Year Follow-Up from a Nationally Representative Study
April 30, 2013 | Journal Article
This study examined the role of social relationships in the development of major depression. The overall quality of social relationships was associated with a significantly higher risk of depression.
Health Professions Partnership Initiative
National Program
Program, co-sponsored with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, to address long-standing under-representation in the health professions of certain racial/ethnic groups, especially African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans.