title: Future management opportunities for minorities in managed care.
abstract: Current proposals for health care reform emphasize managed care in an effort to achieve universal coverage and access to health care for all Americans. One of the many strategies to achieve this goal is to create a new health care workforce by supporting the recruitment and education of health professionals from population groups underrepresented in health care. To help insure that the managed care industry will be adequately prepared to face the challenges of reform, the Group Health Foundation of the Group Health Association of America, Inc., has crafted an innovative Minority Training Program--a management training program in the field of managed care. The program involves resident fellows who will train in select health maintenance organizations (HMOs) in the Washington, DC/Baltimore metropolitan area. To augment training, the fellows will simultaneously participate in a comprehensive didactic program especially designed to prepare each fellow for a first or middle-management position in an HMO or a similar managed care organization. Following successful completion of the first years in Washington, DC, the program will be broadened to other geographical areas.
authors.affiliation: Minority Training Program, Group Health Foundation, Washington, DC 20036.
authors.forename: J N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Phillips
mesh_terms: D006270:Health Facility Administrators / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000193:education*; D014481:United States