| Kansas City | ||
| Program Type |
Number
of Programs
|
Number
of Participants
|
Conference/Seminar |
45 |
3,069 |
Grand
Rounds |
24 |
14,751 |
| Public Forums | 2 |
325 |
| Total for Kansas City | 71 |
18,145 |
| Area Health Education Centers | ||
| Location |
Number
of Programs
|
Number
of Participants
|
Garden
City |
79 |
804 |
Hays |
136 |
1,477 |
Pittsburgh |
265 |
4,424 |
| Total for Area Centers | 480 |
6,705 |
Silver City Health Centers,a joint venture of the KU Departments of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, provides primary care services on a sliding fee scale to patients in the Argentine neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas.
Consultation Clinics, coordinated by the Area Health Education Centers and staffed by KUMC physicians, help to bring specialty medical services such as oncology, rheumatology, and pediatric cardiology to small- to medium-size towns throughout Kansas.
School of Medicine Medical Network Sites .divide the state into five regions, each directed by a practicing physician, who helps coordinate the School's efforts to mentor, train and place medical students for rural preceptorships. Network sites are based in Pittsburg, McPherson, Garden City, Hays, Salina, and Manhattan.
The Center for Telemedicine at KU Medical Center. annually provides thousands of telemedicine consults with over 40 communities linked KUMC specialists to rural and medically underserved communities. One example is the use of its technological capabilities to link a soldier in Iraq with his Kansas family in Junction City to enable family counseling.
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