273730 Welcome Back Initiative

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 : 2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

José Ramón Fernández-Peña, MD, MPA , Health Education, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
     
The Welcome Back Initiative (WBI) was developed to assist foreign trained health professionals in the process of entering the US health workforce. To date, the WBI has served over 12,000 individuals from over 150 countries through its 10 centers across the US. With our assistance, 108 MDs have secured residency training slots, 1,700 have obtained employment in the health sector for the first time, 600 have moved up their career ladders, and thousands more are in the process of achieving their professional goals.

Learning Areas:
Diversity and culture
Program planning
Provision of health care to the public

Learning Objectives:
Identify three individual level barriers foreign trained health professionals encounter as they attempt to enter the US health workforce. Describe the benefits of investing time and effort assisting foreign trained health professionals as they attempt to enter the US health workforce.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the founder and director of the Welcome Back Initiative, a program developed to assist foreign trained health professionals in the process of entering the US health workforce.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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