Request for Applications: Ralph D Feigin, MD, UpToDate Pediatric Subscription Awards

Request for Applications: Ralph D Feigin, MD, UpToDate Pediatric Subscription Awards UpToDate, an on-line medical reference and resource, in conjunction with Texas Children’s Hospital, offers a series of pediatric subscription awards in honor of Dr Ralph David Feigin, who had been Editor-In-Chief of the Pediatrics Section of UpToDate since its inception in 1999. The award program grants up to six, three-year subscriptions to UpToDate to physicians, other health care providers, or health care facilities that provide care to underserved or low-income children and who could not otherwise afford the subscription. The deadline for applications for the current cycle is May 30, awardees will be announced in June, and the subscriptions will start in July, 2014. Criteria Applicants must meet all four (A, B, C, and D) of the following qualifications. A. Practice or teach in low-income or medically underserved areas. A low-income or medically underserved area is defined as meeting any one of the following: 1) a rural area more than 50 miles from the nearest city with a population of 400,000 or more and more than 50 miles from a medical school 2) a practice in which 50% or more of the patients are uninsured, are insured by a governmental program or are identified as minorities 3) a community or area designated by a governmental agency or governmental representative as medically underserved or qualifies as a health professional shortage area 4) a ...
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