Dr. Robert A. Bashford: Primary Care Pioneer
COURTESY UNC HEALTH CARE
Dr. Robert A. Bashford is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, with appointments in the psychiatry; and obstetrics and gynecology departments. As associate dean of admissions at UNC’s medical school since 2009, he’s played a key role in the design and success of the Kenan Primary Medical Scholars program, which is creating a new generation of primary care physicians who understand and embrace the joys and challenges of working in rural communities.
MedServe founders Anne Steptoe and Patrick O’Shea.
University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Rural Interprofessional Health Initiative (RIPHI) $1,500,000 Faculty and programmatic support to enable UNC health professions students to serve and learn in underserved rural clinic settings in North Carolina. MedServe $50,000 Operational support to place recent college graduates with health care clinics in rural or underserved communities
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In the summer of 2017, Dr. Bashford relinquished his admissions role to step into a new one as Associate Dean for Rural Initiatives in the new Kenan-funded Office of Rural Initiatives. He’ll oversee the expansion of the Kenan Primary Medical Scholars program and the launch of a new Rural Fellows program to help primary care physicians in rural practices be successful in their careers and in their communities.