The Cornerstone Medical Enrichment Foundation wishes to establish charitable teaching health centers in underserved areas of medical need in order to assist medical students and graduates in acquiring hands-on medical training while providing free medical care to those who are otherwise unable to obtain it. All services to patients would be free of charge and undertaken in under-served areas of medical need. The overall goal of the foundation is to mitigate the doctor shortage in America and reduce the amount of wasted talent from medical graduates who are left unable to practice medicine and give back to their communities. In addition, the foundation seeks to help fund and actively partake in medical research projects, participate in charitable events, and teach community members about the importance of illness prevention and prophylaxis.
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Our mission is to mitigate the doctor shortage in underserved areas by adequately training and educating all medical students and graduates left out of the Match while providing free or affordable treatment to the underserved communities of America who lack sufficient finances and access to healthcare.
Cornerstone’s vision is to close the training gap so that no graduating medical student goes without the postgraduate training they require to practice medicine as a licensed physician. This will in turn help fix the doctor shortage and bring skilled physicians to medically underserved areas of high need.
Our ultimate goal is to fix the doctor shortage in America. We want to get all medically trained doctors into residency and into practice in rural and underserved areas of high medical need.
THE PROBLEM
Every year there are an estimated 14,000 US and foreign medical graduates who register with the NRMP but fail to match into residency. The number grows larger every year. In the 2019NRMP General Residency Match, there were 64,789 registered applicants with only 35,185positions to be filled. This leaves 29,604 qualified physicians who are left not only unable to treat the ill and pose an impact on their communities, but also unable to support themselves and their families because of the crippling debt they’ve incurred from medical education and the low-income alternative careers they must resort to.
Medicine currently stands as the only profession in the US where you can commit 20 years of your youth to education while going hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and still not be given the chance to practice the profession you have devoted your life to. A significant percentage of these graduates remain in debt for life. The National Center for Health Workforce Analysis projects an estimated shortage of 24,000primary care physicians by 2025. Other independent analyses project a shortage of up to 90,000 within the same timeframe. We already have the capacity to meet this demand. We have a growing shortage of physicians we cannot fill because of a bottlenecked industry. It’s time to make a change.
THE SOLUTION
So that no graduating medical student goes without the postgraduate training they require to practice medicine, Cornerstone Medical Enrichment Foundation wishes to establish teaching health centers recognized by the Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education(THCGME) Program. Under this program, medical graduates are allowed to pursue a primary care residency in a health center just as they normally would in a teaching hospital. The first Cornerstone Medical Enrichment Center will be a teaching center to prepare students and graduates for residency training. Students will receive training for their board examinations as well as learn skills that will help them in pursuing residencies such as the use of EHRs, history and physical taking, diagnostic testing, case presentations, interview training, etc.
Future expansion will occur in areas of high need across the US where accredited teaching health centers would be established for residency training. The expansion will not only cover more patients in underserved areas but also provide more access to increase the healthcare workforce. the cornerstone Medical Enrichment Foundation also seeks to help fund and actively partake in medical research projects for further scientific advancement of the communities we serve. Part of our activities will include organizing fundraising campaigns, walks/marathons, talks, conventions, and rallies where doctors and patients alike can have a platform for their voices to be heard.