RRP recipients commit to serve in communities that lack access to family physicians or to be come full-time teachers of family medicine. The program was established by the AAFP Foundation in 1994 to help family practice residents keep their educational debt loads from increasing during residency because of interest on their medical school loans. McNeil Consumer Heathcare continues to be the sole corporate supporter of this program. McNeil s base support is matched dollar for dollar with donations from individuals, AAFP chapters and AAFP chapter foundations. The Ohio Academy of Family Physicians Foundation supports this program each year.
Key contacts have the inside track on health-related bills in the congressional pipeline.
The OAFP Board of Directors, several committees and all five strategic planning task forces are scheduled to meet this weekend at the OAFP office.