Mission and Goals
Mission
Purpose
PMF’s main purpose is to encourage the recruitment and retention of African-American and unrepresented physicians for the betterment of health care for people in Northern California.
Goals
Our primary goal is to help increase the number of African-American and underrepresented physicians, residents, medical students and pipeline students who are in high school, community/junior college, university/college and post bac and pre-med students in Northern California/Bay Area (primarily in the 8 counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Solano, Sacramento, San Jose, and Stockton.
Our goals are to help to eliminate health disparities and improve medical care for patients. While our focus base is Northern California, Physicians Medical Forum’s network is nationwide and it’s programs and initiatives impact pipeline programs, medical education and training, and thus healthcare delivery in the region and beyond.
Representation and Participation
The Physicians Medical Forum (PMF) leads and supports initiatives, programs, projects, education, mentoring and outreach to advance the broad representation and participation in education and healthcare. Our far reaching goal is to increase and cultivate a prepared physicians and medical workforce that is broadly diverse and prepared at all levels to deliver quality healthcare.