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  • Harris County TAFP hosts med student forum

    Tags: HCAFP, Leon Rochen, Puja Sehgal, Patrick Carter, Donald Nino, Texas Family Medicine Preceptorship Program, Medical Student Roundtable

    By Jean Klewitz

    As all members of TAFP are keenly aware, Texas and the nation suffer from a persistent shortage of primary care physicians. We need more family doctors. The Harris County Academy of Family Physicians is taking important steps to generate and cultivate interest in family medicine among medical students.

    HCAFP met for their Second Annual Medical Student Roundtable on Wednesday, Feb. 3, to discuss the specialty of family medicine. Members welcomed students early in their education from Baylor and UT Houston to a swanky restaurant on the sixth floor of the John P. McGovern Texas Medical Center Commons Building for an evening of frank questions and enlightening discussion.

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