PhA-American Physician Associates, Inc.
1208 Elgin Street
San Leandro, CA 94578
5103315453
Sponsorship Invitation Plans for The PhA Organization
By Founder/President/CEO
These suggestive sponsorship ideas are subjective to change
The PhA Organization is short for The American Physician Associates, Inc.
Our Mission – The PhA Organization a 501(c)(3)
Healthcare is a human right; as a result, practicing medicine is also a right of healthcare professionals.
A solution for US person foreign-train MDs to close the disparity gap for quality healthcare access for the American/Californian community confronting the serious problem of shortage of physicians especially primary care physicians.
Our nation is struggling with the broken healthcare system on many aspects. One of them is the shortage of medical doctors. From a reliable resource, the shortage of MDs at this time is about no less than 30,000 national-wide as a humble number of estimation; however, in the next decade and later on with the increase in population, it only worsens. Shortage of providers is the main cause to lead to quality healthcare access disparity.
To be able to practice medicine independently, a physician must have a powerful piece of paper, a medical doctor license. However, the current medical licensing system in the US has become intricate, redundant, and wasteful; it effectively prevents many qualified MD professionals to be able to properly licensed. So, it turns out to be a counter-productive system to supply for the high demand of public healthcare services.
Among the physicians and medical graduates who are prevented from finalizing their MD licenses, foreign-trained US physicians are the worst victimized professionals. There are many external and internal causes that expose their vulnerability to the current ineffective licensing system. In my book, Survival Skills for USMLEs and Medical Licensing in the US, I have articulated all the issues, small and big ones.
Please visit our website: www.usapha.org
WHAT YOU CAN OFFER OUR ORGANIZATION
1- Legislative support: the support to make Sacto governor office to authorize for these milestone goals and ultimate goals to support the PhA Organization businesses and any and all its subsequent businesses necessarily.
- Help the PhA Organization to reach each of it milestone goals and the ultimate goals: (elaborate more details): these milestone goals are expected to be launched and developed through a period of 5 to 10 years or more or less, it depends on many variances and unexpected events.
These milestone goals can be simultaneously executed at the same time if needed and are not supposed to be waited in line.
+ First milestone goal: From the ECMFG certificate into The PhA license
+ Second milestone goal:
- Obtain the list of foreign-trained MDs who are currently living in US soil, especially California.
- Pilot program (PhA medical residency) for PhA Physician Associates in Northern California, especially the Central Valley and the East Bay of the Bay Area, underserved areas of Northern California, grant the PhA license to the graduated PhAs from the PhA residency program.
+ Third milestone goal: administration of the PhA Physician Associate licenses by the PhA Organization: (Collecting authentic medical education from medical schools for each and all the potential PhA Physician Associates who enter the residency program for PhA as pilot and later is an established PhA residency program, USMLE scores, clerkships, working histories from foreign countries and in America, etc.)
+ Fourth milestone goal: Spread the Pilot program throughout other areas of California statewide
+ Fifth milestone goal and so on: tbd
+ Ultimate goal: From PhA License into MD license and merge into the current mainstream of MD practicing workforce.
2- Promotion-Advertisement-Media broadcasting support:
- Help the PhA Organization to promote their PhA project to statewide California businesses and residents so the whole population be aware of the coming of a new medical professional license with professionals who can provide quality of healthcare.
- This promotion advertisement should be aggressive to meet with the election timeline when it is due.
- Both online and onsite
3- Educational programs support:
- Help the PhA Organization to develop professional educational programs for potential PhA Physician Associates in medical practice. E.g. the extensive review programs on USMLEs to prepare these PhAs to enter the pilot program are one of the very first professional educational programs. There are a lot more later coming into sight.
- Help the PhA Organization to develop educational program and connection to the general public in primary care.
4- Technical support:
- Help the PhA Organization to develop their very first website and any subsequent websites for its businesses.
- Help to develop and to maintain applications for devices, electronic gadgets, online and onsite communications, remote communications, computer systems, etc. More detail should be elaborated when it comes to the time.
5- Human resources support:
- Help the PhA Organization to search for talents to work for the organization and its subsequent businesses. They can be employees, contractors, and/or volunteers, etc. basis.
6- Facilities, means and/or physical and service modality support:
- Help the PhA Organization with physical office(s) and other professional and general facilities necessary for the businesses.
- Help the PhA Organization in any and all of their activities that serve its mission. For example: campaign means, meetings with the general public that need revenue, a location, communications, etc.
7- Financial support:
- Delineate financial plans to sponsor all the above needs from the PhA Organization.
WHAT BENEFITS YOU GET FROM OUR ORGANIZATION
All direct sponsors, indirect sponsors, donators, volunteers, etc. are listed in our thanking list of honors.
A- AS (A) DIRECT SPONSOR(S):
1- SUPPER STAR DIRECT SPONSOR:
a- What you offer: at least three or more of the full or a major portion of the full featured services of the above list of the seven needs for the PhA Organization. There would be detailed delineation of the terms, conditions, executions and managements of the projects of sponsorship.
b- What you get:
- Your businesses, individual entit(ies) are addressed in both speaking and written at conferences, meetings, seminars, etc. across statewide or nationwide where the PhA Organization Founder/President/CEOand/or PhA Organization Representatives give the talk session(s).
- Your businesses, individual entit(ies) are displayed on our front page websites as slide show with different frequencies, durations, etc. These features would be discussed in more detailed terms and conditions when the actual contract(s) between the PhA Organization representative(s) are delineated.
Plus:
- Your company logo prominently placed on the back of all the event shirts.
- Recognition as a Gold Sponsor during our event through the PA announcements
- Opportunity to have your “promotional items” made available at any and all event.
- Your logo not only on our sponsor page but also on our main page.
- Your logo on all our flyers sent out to the public.
- Company supplied banner to be put up at all events.
- Certificate of Recognition
2- FIVE STARS DIRECT SPONSOR:
a- What you offer: at least two or more of the full or a major portion of the full featured services of the above list of the seven needs for the PhA Organization above. There would be detailed delineation of the terms, conditions, executions and managements of the projects of sponsorship.
b- What you get:
- Your businesses, individual entit(ies) are addressed in both speaking and written at conferences, meetings, seminars, etc. across statewide or nationwide where the PhA Organization Founder/President/CEOand/or PhA Organization Representatives give the talk session(s).
- Your businesses, individual entit(ies) are displayed on our front page websites as slide show with different frequencies, durations, etc. These features would be discussed in more detailed terms and conditions when the actual contract(s) between the PhA Organization representative(s) are delineated.
Plus:
- Your company logo prominently placed on the back of all the event shirts.
- Recognition as a Gold Sponsor during our event through the PA announcements
- Opportunity to have your “promotional items” made available at any and all event.
- Your logo not only on our sponsor page but also on our main page.
- Your logo on all our flyers sent out to the public.
- Company supplied banner to be put up at all events.
- Certificate of Recognition
3- FOUR STARS DIRECT SPONSOR:
a- What you offer: at least one or more of the full or a major portion of the full featured services of the above list of the seven needs for the PhA Organization above. There would be detailed delineation of the terms, conditions, executions and managements of the projects of sponsorship.
b- What you get:
- Your businesses, individual entit(ies) are addressed in both speaking and written at conferences, meetings, seminars, etc. across statewide or nationwide where the PhA Organization Founder/President/CEOand/or PhA Organization Representatives give the talk session(s).
- Your businesses, individual entit(ies) are displayed on our front page websites as slide show with different frequencies, durations, etc. These features would be discussed in more detailed terms and conditions when the actual contract(s) between the PhA Organization representative(s) are delineated.
Plus:
- Your company logo prominently placed on the back of all the event shirts.
- Recognition as a Gold Sponsor during our event through the PA announcements
- Opportunity to have your “promotional items” made available at any and all event.
- Your logo not only on our sponsor page but also on our main page.
- Your logo on all our flyers sent out to the public.
- Company supplied banner to be put up at all events.
- Certificate of Recognition
4- THREE STARS DIRECT SPONSOR:
a- What you offer: partial yet functional services sponsorship of any one or more of the featured services of the above list of seven needs for the PhA Organization above. There would be detailed delineation of the terms, conditions, executions and managements of the projects of sponsorship.
b- What you get:
- Your businesses, individual entit(ies) are addressed in both speaking and written at conferences, meetings, seminars, etc. across statewide or nationwide where the PhA Organization Founder/President/CEOand/or PhA Organization Representatives give the talk session(s).
- Your businesses, individual entit(ies) are displayed on our front page websites as slide show with different frequencies, durations, etc. These features would be discussed in more detailed terms and conditions when the actual contract(s) between the PhA Organization representative(s) are delineated.
Plus:
- Your company logo prominently placed on the back of all the event shirts.
- Recognition as a Gold Sponsor during our event through the PA announcements
- Opportunity to have your “promotional items” made available at any and all event.
- Your logo not only on our sponsor page but also on our main page.
- Your logo on all our flyers sent out to the public.
- Company supplied banner to be put up at all events.
- Certificate of Recognition
B- AS (AN) INDIRECT SPONSOR(S) and DONATOR(S):
1- DIAMOND INDIRECT SPONSOR:
a- What you offer: $200,000 – $500,000
b- What you get:
b- What you get:
- Your businesses, individual entit(ies) are addressed in both speaking and written at conferences, meetings, seminars, etc. across statewide or nationwide where the PhA Organization Founder/President/CEOand/or PhA Organization Representatives give the talk session(s).
- Your businesses, individual entit(ies) are displayed on our front page websites as slide show with different frequencies, durations, etc. These features would be discussed in more detailed terms and conditions when the actual contract(s) between the PhA Organization representative(s) are delineated.
Plus:
- Your company logo prominently placed on the back of all the event shirts.
- Recognition as a Gold Sponsor during our event through the PA announcements
- Opportunity to have your “promotional items” made available at any and all event.
- Your logo not only on our sponsor page but also on our main page.
- Your logo on all our flyers sent out to the public.
- Company supplied banner to be put up at all events.
- Certificate of Recognition
2- GOLD INDIRECT SPONSOR:
a- What you offer: $50,000 – $199,999
b- What you get:
- Your businesses, individual entit(ies) are addressed in both speaking and written at conferences, meetings, seminars, etc. across statewide or nationwide where the PhA Organization Founder/President/CEOand/or PhA Organization Representatives give the talk session(s).
- Your businesses, individual entit(ies) are displayed on our front page websites as slide show with different frequencies, durations, etc. These features would be discussed in more detailed terms and conditions when the actual contract(s) between the PhA Organization representative(s) are delineated.
Plus:
- Your company logo prominently placed on the back of all the event shirts.
- Recognition as a Gold Sponsor during our event through the PA announcements
- Opportunity to have your “promotional items” made available at any and all event.
- Your logo not only on our sponsor page but also on our main page.
- Your logo on all our flyers sent out to the public.
- Company supplied banner to be put up at all events.
- Certificate of Recognition
3- SILVER INDIRECT SPONSOR:
a- What you offer: $10,000 – $49,999
b- What you get:
- Your businesses, individual entit(ies) are displayed on our front page websites as slide show with different frequencies, durations, etc. These features would be discussed in more detailed terms and conditions when the actual contract(s) between the PhA Organization representative(s) are delineated.
Plus:
- Recognition at all event
- Recognition as a Silver Sponsor during our event through the PA announcements.
- Your company logo placed on the back of all the event shirts.
- Your logo on our website sponsor page.
- Company supplied banner to be put up at events.
- Certificate of Recognition
4- BRONZE INDIRECT SPONSOR:
a- What you offer: $1,000 – $9,999
b- What you get:
Plus:
- Recognition at all events
- Your company logo placed on the back of all the event shirts.
- Your logo on our website sponsor page.
- Company supplied banner to be put up at events.
- Certificate of Recognition
5- COMMUNITY INDIRECT SPONSOR:
a- What you offer: $100- $999
b- What you get:
- Recognition at all events
- Your logo placed on the back of all the event shirts.
- Your company logo on our sponsor page.
- Company supplied banner to be put up at events.
- Certificate of Recognition
6- Donators: any amount below $100
You will be listed in our donator list.
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2018 Sponsorship Agreement Form
Sponsors Name: _________________________________ Contact Person: _________________________________
Address: _________________________________________________________________________________
Phone: ______________________________ Email: _______________________________________________
Signed: ______________________________________________________________ Date: _______________
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Summary of The PhA Project- Physician Associates Project
Healthcare is a human right; as a result, practicing medicine is also a right for healthcare professionals.
The current healthcare system is facing a tough challenge of shortage of medical doctors to serve the community. According to the AAMC (American Association of Medical College) Study in early 2018, America would face a shortage of 200,000 physicians projected from now to 2025.
As a foreign-trained MD from Saigon, Vietnam, Katherine Miller, now a Vietnamese American of Northern California for 17 years, The Founder of the PhA Organization, has delineated a solution to close this disparity gap for quality healthcare access by a new pathway that tries to fit foreign-trained MDs who live in the American soil as a very enriched ready resource of medical professionals, and who already obtained the ECFMG certificates to return to practice medicine, primary care so to serve the community with high demand of primary care/family physicians.
The PhA Project is the short form for the PhA-eAML Project acronym for the Physician Associates in Services and the Eco-saver Attainable Medical Licensing Project. This is a huge and lengthy project that can have the strong impact to revolutionize the current cumbersome and reality-detached medical licensing system into a more realistic, practical, and energy-saving, eco-friendly licensing system that can effectively and sincerely serves the needs of quality healthcare for the diverse communities. The PhA Project mission is to supply quality mid-level medical providers with the title PhA Physician Associates, via a licensing process with a pertinent residency program for PhAs from six to nine (6 to 9) months and possible extensions, to serve the communities especially underserved areas of California and eventually nationwide. The practice scopes of these PhAs are higher than NP Nurse Practitioners and PA Physician Assistants, but lower than practicing MDs. So, they would work under supervision of licensed MDs with the ratio of ten to fifteen PhAs are reported to one licensed MD. Their scopes of practice are considered flexible based mainly on the safety of the community they provide the services.
Their clinical experiences and medical professional knowledges are constantly revamped by strenuous CME activities under many different means and methodologies, including basic and advanced technologies that would be designed to fit with the clinical practice circumstances.
In general, after three to four years of PhA Practicing, PhAs with all their activities are recorded meticulously by the electronic medical record and licensing record system would eventually finalize their MD licenses and they can merge into the current MDs mainstream.
Katherine Miller, MD
Founder/President/CEO
About our Founder
My story -Katherine Miller, MD can be found at: http://www.usapha.org/dr-katherine-miller-story/
Katherine T Miller is a medical doctor graduated in 1996 from The University of Medicine of Hochiminh City, Saigon, Vietnam. The primary reason for her immigration to the US is in search of personal freedom and social justice. She does not want to live in a communism that has mutated into a muddle of “red capitalism” that even worsens human rights in Vietnam. With the clear perspective of a medical doctor, she has soon found out she does not belong there. She came to the US and proud to become US citizen 2007. She is an American at heart; however, her previous country and its Vietnamese people are still in her heart.
Since there are no medical licensing examinations in Vietnam for practicing medicine, all new medical graduates start working as physicians after they receive their MD diplomas, same story for Katherine Miller. She entered eighteen (18) months of OBGYN training at the biggest OBGYN hospital in Saigon and graduated with a certificate of preliminary OBGYN specialist. Then, she had practiced medicine as primary care physician at multiple general hospitals and OBGYN hospitals and medical facilities, clinics in Saigon, Vietnam. She then also attended nine (9) months training of general and OBGYN sonogram that added into her rich skills in serving the patients and earned her a great deal of clinical experiences for the last seven (7) years practicing medicine in Saigon, Vietnam before she immigrated to the US at the end of 2002.
Since her move to the US in 2002, she has stayed at the same town, San Leandro, The East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California. Living in the underserved area of the East Bay, she has experienced and sensed the shortage of primary care physicians. Although she has entered public schools such as CSU East Bay, Chabot College, and City College of San Francisco (Stem Cell Technician Certificate earned) to enjoy learning about the American and Californian diversity culture, never strayed away from her ultimate goals, has Katherine always yearned to return practice medicine; she eventually found out the challenging path of medical licensing. For the primary reason of why she came to the US, she was not initially informed about this. In her book, “Survival Skills for USMLEs and Medical Licensing in the United States”, she explained the most disadvantageous group of foreign-trained US doctors that has known zero information about the intricate and puzzling medical licensing.
From meticulous work and tremendous devotion, she passed all the USMLEs (United States Medical Licensing Examinations), the same licensing examination for domestic-trained MDs including USMLE step 1 as basic medical sciences, USMLE step 2 CK clinical knowledge, and USMLE step 2 CS clinical skills with verification of medical school transcripts and diploma from Saigon Vietnam. She was granted the ECFMG certificate in 2011. Her medical school from my previous country, Vietnam, has forced her to pay them $2,500 for just sending the official transcript to the ECFMG (The Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates). It was the price of freedom!
Then, the worst has yet to come, she found out about the huge blockade to finalize MD licenses because of the cumbersome licensing system that lead to the discrepancy of the waste of foreign-trained MDs versus the serious shortage of MDs to provide care for the increasingly demands of physicians in near and far future. The absurdity of the current medical licensing is here. Passing all the USMLEs does not help to make a MD ready to practice medicine. The ECFMG certificate is only used for applying into medical residency while medical residency has become the big roadblock for finalizing medical doctor licenses. According to an AAMC study in early 2018, there would be at least 200,000 MDs shortage projected in twenty (20) years!
She has been volunteered as a medical interpreter and clinical assistant for over ten (10) private practices of local physicians with various specialties: three primary care offices (3) in San Leandro, Hayward, three OBGYN offices (3) in Castro Valley and Hayward and NAPA, one pediatrician office (1) in San Leandro, one ophthalmology office (San Jose), one urology surgery office (1) in Napa, two internal medicine offices (2) in San Leandro and Castro Valley. She has been a visiting physician observed at Saint Rose OBGYN hospital, NAPA Valley Hospital, Stanford Hospital, Eden Hospital and Emergency Room. Indulging herself into these clinical activities yet with minimum permission of hands-on experiences, Katherine Miller could still learn a lot of clinical experiences and how the medical and healthcare system in America operate via her critical thinking capability. She has deeply understood the intricate healthcare system and how the business built on the for-profit foundation, a huge change from a non-profit charity purpose on healthcare system before the 1950s.
Hindsight is 20/20 as the saying goes. Thousands of foreign-trained medical doctors and even about a few hundreds of domestic-trained doctor annually are unable to “secure” a residency slot. (Sarcastically, it is said “secure a residency slot”). They are totally blinded about this huge barricade until getting too close! The frustration only worsens. She had applied for medical residency all over the US for four (4) continuous years without success, wasting thousands of dollars annually. The same disturbing stories are like thousands of other doctors, both foreign-trained and domestic-trained!
Since 2011, Katherine Miller has been studiously researching about the medical licensing system in the US via local libraries, university especially medical school libraries, and talking with people in related fields. She wrote the book based on what she has found and wanted a better change for the current cumbersome licensing system. She has delineated the PhA Physician Associate Project as the solution to bring back foreign-trained MDs who live in American soil to be able to practice medicine in a new pathway with a new license PhA Physician Associates, a mid-level provider that is higher than PA physician assistant and NP nurse practitioner, but still a little lower than licensed MD. These Physician Associates PhA would work in the real medical settings (instead of the restrained boundaries of teaching hospitals) for three (3) to four (4) years with meticulous online and onsite credentialing (based on the evaluation system of our current residency systems) to validate their clinical work and CME participants. These PhAs are eventually able to finalize their MD licenses. This approach is much more realistic and practical that directly meets with the demand of physician shortage as the endemic near and far future.
Please watch these three video clips:
Video 1: the current American Medical Licensing system:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lpdCqQKZJs
Video 2: The PhA Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7uYAPJ3vng
Video 3: Estimation of the number of unmatched foreign-trained MDs gone wasted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3upT6SQ6J4&t=1s
The current petition with over 770 supporters all over America and other countries:
https://www.change.org/p/california-governor-petition-for-california-governor-to-approve-pilot-program-as-a-medical-residency-for-pha
Since 2014, she has researched and understood the basics American political system for legislation changes. She has been in contact with more than ten (10) government offices including local (district 13 and surrounding districts) assembly members and senator offices and Sacramento Offices of the Governor, Office of Professional and Business Development (She submitted to the office chief consultant and manager the SUNRISE BOOK answering over seventy (70) questions on how a new medical license established to the safety of the public), etc. in the effort to promote her PhA Project. She also initiated the online campaign for the Pilot medical residency program for Physician Associate PhA. (https://www.change.org/p/california-governor-petition-for-california-governor-to-approve-pilot-program-as-a-medical-residency-for-pha)
The majority of these government offices have approved the idea to be able to promote into a new legislation and encouraged her trying to work on the PhA Organization growth so the entities can take on the wheel to launch the project successfully.
She has also struggled to survive a normal life. She had previously experienced as a tutor for Vietnamese language, mathematics and life sciences and social sciences for junior high school students in Saigon, Vietnam previously and Northern California in 2006 to 2011. She is currently working as a caregiver nurse and a medical interpreter, working fifty (50) to seventy (70) hours a week with minimum wages to make my end-meet.
At the moment, with the success of the online petition on change.org (please see the link above), the legislative Counsel Office has accepted into drafting the PhA Project idea into an initiative for The State of California official election. Dr. Miller has been working with a deputy legislative counsel since March 2018.
As busy as a bee, she has officially found The American Physician Associates, Inc. short form as The PhA Organization in September 2017. She has been still running the organization as its very early stage with very limited modalities and trying to search for sponsors, donators, etc. to help its growth. The PhA Organization has obtained its 501(c) (3) as nonprofit tax exempt status last February 2018.
References:
USMLES AND MEDICAL LICENSING IN THE UNITED STATES SURVIVAL SKILLS Paperback – October 10, 2016 by KATHERINE THUY MILLER (Author, Editor)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1365442438
http://www.usapha.org/dr-katherine-miller-story/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-miller-164239b7/
https://news.aamc.org/medical-education/article/new-aamc-research-reaffirms-looming-physician-shor/
PhA-American Physician Associates, Inc.
1208 Elgin Street
San Leandro, CA 94578
5103315453