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Introduction and History
The eight UAMS Regional Campuses across Arkansas serve as an educational outreach network for UAMS and are the principal means to decentralize medical and health professional education throughout the state. Its mission is to improve the health of Arkansans by training those skilled, caring professionals and delivering high quality patient-centered primary care to underserved communities.
An integral part of Regional Campuses division, Honors in Underserved Primary Care, was launched in 2020-2021 with three core goals:
- To train medical students by offering a comprehensive, longitudinal, extra-curricular experience in rural and urban underserved medicine
- to sustain medical student interest in in practicing primary care in such areas
- to retain these medical students in our state once they graduate.
Primary Care Medicine Is…
Family Medicine, Geriatrics, General Internal Medicine, General Pediatrics, Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, General Obstetrics and Gynecology
What is Honors in Underserved Primary Care?
HUPC at UAMS is a four-year guided track that provides medical students with camaraderie, faculty and staff support, UAMS resources and educational opportunities to encourage students to pursue community based primary care as a medical career. Students will gain early clinical experiences with area Family Medicine physicians. Each student will choose, investigate and develop a longitudinal project; explore and evaluate resources then write a literature review to support that project; and participate in other activities. The HUPC curriculum and required program activities have been specifically designed to enhance each students’ understanding and practice of Primary Care medicine in rural and urban underserved communities.
Goals of Honors in Underserved Primary Care
- Provide students with a longitudinal experience that prepares them to provide comprehensive medical care for rural and urban underserved populations
- Support and foster student interest in a career practicing primary care in underserved communities in Arkansas.
- Foster a robust community of physicians and students who are passionate about primary care in underserved areas in Arkansas
- Understand and master the HRSA Core Topics
- Interprofessional Education and Practice (IPE)/Quadruple Aim
- Behavioral Health Integration
- Social Determinants of Health
- Cultural Competency
- Practice Transformation/Population Health
- Current and Emerging Health Topics
Benefits of HUPC
- 4-year extracurricular, guided program
- Stipend supported
- Increased marketability
- Small, selective cohorts
- M1 experience in primary care clinical settings
- Connect with UAMS Regional Campus faculty/rural health care providers
- Network with primary care physicians
Academic Staff List
Dr. Leslie Stone
Director of HUPC and Medical Student Education Division of DFPM LStone@uams.edu
Dr. Jennifer Dukes-Casey
Assistant Director, M1-M2 programs DukesJenniferN@uams.edu
Dr. Amber Norris
Assistant Director, M4 Programs
AKNorris@uams.edu
Dr. David Kelley
M2 HUPC Core Text Discussion Group Leader
DKelley@uams.edu