The Medical Student Fellow for Healthcare Reform (MSF)
of the California Physicians Alliance (CaPA) and CAHPSA
 Send email to the Medical Student Fellow: capa.fellow@gmail.com |
Download recent event presentations and Handouts by the Medical Student Fellow. |
Donate to support the work of the CAPA Medical Student Fellow all over California! |
Invite an Excellent Speaker on Healthcare Reform!
Interested in an excellent speaker who will travel to
you, to speak to your group or special event, about SB 810 and/or HR 676 /
S 703? Then you may email capa.fellow@gmail.com to
request that our “Medical Student Fellow” come present to your group of health
professional students, pre-health professional students and other related groups, at no charge to you.
Who Is the Medical Student Fellow for Healthcare Reform, Anyway?
The Medical Student Fellow for Healthcare Reform (MSF) is a highly qualified public speaker, and a medical student at a California school of medicine who has been a leader in the state movement to promote The California Universal Health Care Act - Single Payer Plan (SB 810). The Medical Student Fellow is closely affiliated with CAHPSA.
Started in September 2008, the “Medical Student Fellow for
Healthcare Reform” (MSF) is a one-year, rotating, full-time position,
funded by the California Physicians’ Alliance for a medical student who
is so knowledgeable and passionate about creating true healthcare reform
that the person is willing to take a year off of school in order
to promote California's bill, SB 810 and the US Congress and Senate bills,
HR 676 / S 703.
The 2009-10 MSF is JB Fenix, also fourth year medical student at UC Irvine. He will continue to focus on promoting involvement among health professional students, as well as other infrastructure components of the position. The vision is eventually to havetwo medical students per year – one in NorCal, one in SoCal.
The power of this position cannot be overstated. As the tomorrow’s healthcare providers and leaders, health professional students (and pre-professional students too!) have a unique and powerful stake in discussions of reform. By helping to catalyze involvement among health professional students, the MSF has facilitated the increasingly large presence this “new player” on the block of healthcare reform advocates.
If you would like to request the MSF come speak to your group, please send an email to the Medical Student Fellow at CAPA at CAPA.Fellow@gmail.com You may download JB Fenix's biographical statement and one of his presentations on Universal Health Care.
Accomplishments of Founding First Medical Student Fellow, Parker Duncan: 2008-2009
The
founding Medical Student Fellow who served in 2008-2009 was Parker
Duncan, MPH who is a fourth-year medical student at UC Irvine in 2009-2010.
He delivered
73 presentations during the year, mostly to to an estimated
audience of 3,400 persons from health and pre-health
professional groups all over California, including one of the keynote
addresses that energized 600 attendees at our Lobby Day 2009 in Sacramento,
CA.
The Vision y compromiso talks were in español!
In addition, Parker Duncan presented invited testimony to the California Senate Health Committee, as one of only two invitees, in a April 19, 2009 legislative hearing that drew over 300 representatives of state employees, healthcare workers, teachers, unions, community leadership organizations and more! See the video of Parker Duncan's statement to the Health Committee.
At one of the three national White House Summits on healthcre reform, Parker Duncan was a featured and popular speaker at the White Hosue Summit Rally. Parker's speech addressed issues in support of Single Payer Healthcare that were missing from the "official" summit meetings.
Thus, the average audience size was 47 with a range from 6 to 200+! The following chart is a breakdown by category.Presentations by Medical Student Fellow, Parker Duncan: 2008-2009
| Category | Number of Groups Talks | Total Attendees | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Health | |||
|
4
|
150
|
Great target audience |
|
4
|
720
|
Huge target audience |
|
5
|
390
|
|
|
9
|
475
|
|
| Medical | |||
|
10
|
600
|
Includes Northern CA and Southern CA Healthcare Conferences |
|
2
|
80
|
Continue efforts to make LMSA a big target audience |
|
4
|
240
|
|
| Other HP groups | |||
| Residencies |
7
|
180
|
|
|
1
|
||
|
3
|
||
|
3
|
||
| CSU Long Beach |
8
|
225
|
|
| Miscellaneous |
3
|
185
|
|
| Community | |||
| Visión y Compromiso |
5
|
145
|
Fabulous potential for coordination and advocacy |
| Rotary Clubs |
6
|
130
|
Orange County and Los Angeles only |
| LWV |
2
|
75
|
|
| Other |
1
|
120
|
St. Episcopal school |
| Total |
73
|
3,400
|
How Can California Support Advocacy by the Medical Student Fellow?
There is NO charge; however, donations to maintain the groundbreaking accomplishments of the position are very welcome.
If you donate to support the work of the CAPA Medical Student Fellow all over California, you will be directly helping to advocate for Universal Health Care for California's Single Payer Plan!!As a ‘thank you’, you may present a check payable to the “California Physicians’ Alliance” (a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization), or you may conveniently click here and donate (requires credit card payment). A new window will open at the web site of the California Physicians Alliance, CAPA Donation page. There you may select the radio button labeled, "Medical Student Fellow."
Thank you for your support of this vital advocacy position for California's Universal Health Care Act, SB 810!
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Send email to the Medical Student Fellow: capa.fellow@gmail.com |
Download recent event presentations and Handouts by the Medical Student Fellow. |
Donate to support the work of the CAPA Medical Student Fellow all over California! |