Apply Now "As a busy clinician in a high-risk clinic, I found it difficult to familiarize myself with the intricacies of our healthcare system and inner government workings until I joined the LEAHP program. As a LEAHP fellow, I have developed a health policy lens through which I have a deeper appreciation and understanding of how policy is created and implemented. The virtual webinars are efficiently run, easy to access and thus well suited for busy clinicians.
- "Sire Sow, MD, LEAHP Graduate
SGIM's Leadership in Health Policy Program (LEAHP) aims to accomplish the following:
- To develop SGIM members who are effective and active health policy advocates and local health policy experts, leaders, and teachers;
- To offer health policy career development resources and opportunities to all SGIM members; and
- To develop an expanding, national cadre of Health Policy Committee (HPC) members and broaden engagement in the Society’s health policy efforts.
LEAHP's learning objectives include:
- Knowing the key structures and functions of the US health care system;
- Understanding the key players and processes in the federal health policy-making;
- Ability to critically evaluate healthcare delivery and economic models and to propose needed changes and/or additions;
- Ability to explain the impact of health care reform on the practice of medicine, education, and research; and
- Ability to advocate effectively advocacy with policy-makers.
The 2023 LEAHP application process is now closed. Please check back in fall 2023 for application information on the 2024 cohort.
SGIM continues its journey to becoming an anti-racist society that is committed to promoting and championing diversity, equity, and inclusion as a strategic priority. All applicants will be given equal consideration by a diverse panel of reviewers.
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Contact Francine Jetton, Director of Communications & Publications, at jettonf@sgim.org