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On April 29, MMA President Lisa Mattson, MD, presented the Exceptional Primary Care Community Faculty Teaching Award to Adrianne Moen, MD, at the eighth-annual Dean’s Tribute to Excellence in Education event at the Bell Museum in St. Paul.
Moen’s nominator wrote: “In every sense of the word, Dr. Moen embodies what academic medicine hopes to cultivate, an extraordinary clinician, a gifted educator, a community leader, and a deeply compassionate and kind human being. Not only does she teach students about primary care, but she inspires them to believe in its profound impact both in the clinic and throughout the community.”
Moen is a family medicine physician at Lakewood Health System in Staples.
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MMA President Lisa Mattson, MD, provides the "Tribute to Community Preceptors" at the eighth-annual Dean’s Tribute to Excellence in Education event in St. Paul. |
The MMA has partnered with the University of Minnesota Medical School since 2015, when the MMA embarked on what was to become the “Preceptor Initiative,” an effort to develop tools and resources to improve the training and support for preceptors. The partnership serves as a recognition of the important role that community preceptors play in the education of medical students, and their combined commitment to ensuring that there is a sufficient supply of community preceptors across Minnesota.
The teaching award stemmed from this partnership, and it recognizes those who take the time to teach the future primary care physician workforce. The award honors community faculty members and is co-presented by the MMA and the University of Minnesota Medical School.
With the United States facing a shortage of between 20,200 and 40,400 primary care physicians by 2036, and a projection of about a quarter fewer rural physicians practicing by 2030 - the need for additional preceptors to educate future primary care physicians is critical.
Mattson was joined at the event by Janet Silversmith, MMA CEO, and Juliana Milhofer, JD, MMA's manager of public health policy & community health partnerships.
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