Residents Receive Policy Promotion Grants

AMA Grant recipients Lloyd Fisher, M.D., (left) and Richard Urman, M.D. (right)

With some help from the AMA Resident and Fellow Section (AMA-RFS), Lloyd Fisher, M.D., and Richard Urman, M.D., will be able to carry out a health policy curriculum for residents and a community-based health literacy program, respectively. The AMA-RFS has awarded each resident’s project a policy promotion grant of $500.

Grassroots advocacy is typically not a skill taught in residency programs. To help fill that gap, Dr. Fisher, a third-year pediatric resident at UMass Memorial Health Care, designed a series of monthly lunchtime conferences to give residents a general understanding of how the U.S. health care system works. Dr. Fisher plans to demonstrate “how an individual or a group of individuals can have a role in shaping health care policy.”

Dr. Urman, a third-year anesthesia resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, plans to use the grant to conduct health literacy tutor workshops. “Improving health literacy education is one of the major priorities of the AMA and our state’s medical society, and one of my professional passions,” Dr. Urman said.

The MMS Resident and Fellow Section congratulates both Drs. Fisher and Urman on their achievements.

– Emily H. Richardson