Bill Text: CA ACR1 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: University of California: UC Riverside School of
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-21 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 54, Statutes of 2013. [ACR1 Detail]
Download: California-2013-ACR1-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: ACR 1 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
RESOLUTION CHAPTER 54
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE JUNE 21, 2013
ADOPTED IN SENATE JUNE 13, 2013
ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 21, 2013
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Medina
DECEMBER 3, 2012
Relative to the University of California.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
ACR 1, Medina. University of California: UC Riverside School of
Medicine.
This measure states that the University of California, Riverside
School of Medicine serves an important role in the State of
California by training a diverse workforce of physicians and
providing health care to an underserved region.
WHEREAS, The mission of the University of California, Riverside
(UCR) School of Medicine is to improve the health of the people of
California and, especially, to serve Inland Southern California by
training a diverse workforce of physicians and by developing
innovative research and health care delivery programs that will
improve the health of the medically underserved in the region and
become models to be emulated throughout the state and the nation; and
WHEREAS, Inland Southern California is vastly undersupplied with
respect to physicians and this region of California has the lowest
supply of physicians per capita than any other region of the state,
according to the California HealthCare Foundation; and
WHEREAS, In primary care specialties alone, many California
counties have far fewer than the 60 to 80 primary care physicians per
100,000 people, which is considered sufficient to meet demand. The
Inland Empire has approximately 40 primary care physicians per
100,000 residents; and
WHEREAS, Latinos, African Americans, and Native Americans are
vastly underrepresented in the physician workforce, and, in the
Inland Empire alone, more than 45 percent of the population is
Latino, compared to just 5 percent of the physicians in the region;
and
WHEREAS, Inland Southern California also faces a dire health
situation, trailing behind much of the state in several key health
indicators, including coronary heart disease and diabetes; and
WHEREAS, The UCR School of Medicine has received preliminary
accreditation from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the
national accrediting body for allopathic, or M.D.-granting, medical
schools, which enables the UCR School of Medicine to begin recruiting
students to enroll an inaugural class in August 2013; and
WHEREAS, To meet the region's workforce needs and improve the
health of the population, the UCR School of Medicine will capitalize
on UCR's nationally recognized diversity and the ethnic diversity of
the region by expanding the educational pipeline into medicine; and
WHEREAS, The UCR School of Medicine will also expand UCR's
strength in basic health sciences research to build research
expertise in population health and health outcomes research. Through
its research, the UCR School of Medicine will address specific health
care challenges within Inland Southern California, serving as a
catalyst for community-based participatory research leading to
innovations in population health, preventive care, and health
outcomes; and
WHEREAS, UCR is building its medical school from a long history of
training physicians in partnership with the University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine. The
UCR/UCLA Thomas Haider Program in Biomedical Sciences currently
educates 28 first-year and 28 second-year medical students. Operating
for more than 30 years, this partnership with the UCLA School of
Medicine has produced more than 700 physicians; and
WHEREAS, Drawing from UCR's diverse undergraduate population, the
UCR/UCLA Thomas Haider Program in Biomedical Sciences has established
a successful track record of recruiting, retaining, and graduating
highly qualified medical students from groups that are
underrepresented in medicine. A significant number of programs and
partnerships currently exist that serve potential medical school
applicants through mentorship, pipeline programs, and leadership
training; and
WHEREAS, The UCR School of Medicine will continue and expand
existing programs, build new programs and partnerships, and track key
data concerning the applicant pool and the matriculating students of
each class of 50 students. As the UCR School of Medicine increases
the class size to 50 students, drawing now from a much larger general
applicant pool, the UCR School of Medicine will continue to support
programs that enhance the pool of qualified applicants considered for
admission; and
WHEREAS, The UCR School of Medicine will also partner with
existing health care providers for clinical rotations and residency
training, building on the relationships that UCR has already
established with the region's health care providers; and
WHEREAS, The full funding of the UCR School of Medicine would
ensure the execution of a vision of the first medical school to be
developed in California in more than 40 years, and the UCR School of
Medicine is poised to transform medical education by training
physicians that will be more attuned to the needs of increasingly
diverse and underserved patient populations and will be an
outstanding and much needed asset in the state of California; now,
therefore, be it
Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the University of California, Riverside
School of Medicine serves an important role in the State of
California by training a diverse workforce of physicians and
providing health care to an underserved region; and be it further
Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
