November 5, 2021 PHC Requesting Proposals to Increase CalVaxGrant Awareness and Applications PHC is soliciting proposals from organizations to help raise awareness and increase applications to CalVaxGrant. Grants of up to $10,000 are available to 25-50 organizations that must conduct outreach between November 8 – December 15, 2021. read more
August 10, 2021 GME Startup Solutions If you are interested in starting a physician residency program, we invite you to learn more about Physicians for a Healthy California’s (PHC) new Graduate Medical Education (GME) Startup Solutions program: www.phcdocs.org/GME-startup-solutions read more
August 10, 2021 CalHealthCares loan repayment program awards $67.9 million to health care providers, increasing access to care On June 25, 2021, Physicians for a Healthy California (PHC) and the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) announced that 244 physicians and 43 dentists were awarded approximately $67.9 million in student loan repayments. read more
August 10, 2021 CalMedForce GME application now open Approximately $39 million will be available to support and expand primary care (family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology and pediatrics) and emergency medicine GME programs in California that prioritize serving underserved areas and communities read more
August 10, 2021 New standards in Cultural and Linguistic Competency and Implicit Bias in continuing medical education coming soon The California Medical Association’s (CMA) continuing medical education (CME) team is excited to announce that the new Cultural and Linguistic Competency (CLC) and Implicit Bias (IB) standards will be released in late summer of this year. read more
August 10, 2021 CalVaxGrant provides physician practices up to $55,000 for COVID-19 vaccine administration In partnership with the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Physicians for a Healthy California (PHC) is administering the CalVaxGrant program to increase the number of providers vaccinating against COVID-19 by supporting and incentivizing physician organizations (with 200 or fewer physicians) to increase and maintain their participation in the myCAvax program, and to start or continue to administer COVID-19 vaccines. read more
August 10, 2021 Registration for the 18th annual Network of Ethnic Physician Organizations (NEPO) Summit is live Registration is now live for this critical convening; interested individuals can register here. This year’s summit will be virtual and cover topics critical to diverse physicians and patients including COVID-19, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), health outcome disparities in the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities and more. read more
May 6, 2021 PHC partners with Health Net on cultural competency education series Physicians for a Healthy California (PHC), in partnership with Health Net, today announced the launch of a seven-part cultural competency education series for California health care providers. read more
April 27, 2021 PHC Releases 2020 Annual Report 2020 annual report illustrates how PHC improved community health, grew a diverse physician workforce and promoted health equity. read more
March 10, 2021 CMA Updating CLC & Implicit Bias Standards CMA is convening an advisory council to update continuing medical education (CME) standards for cultural and linguistic competency (CLC) and create new standards for implicit bias. read more