Community health centers (CHCs) face challenges recruiting and retaining primary care clinicians. Providing advanced training that enhances clinical skills within a public health framework, teaches leadership, protects time for scholarly activities, and focuses on the social mission may be a successful career development strategy.

Thoroughly characterizing and continuously monitoring the public health workforce is necessary for ensuring capacity to deliver public health services. A prerequisite for this is to develop a standardized methodology for classifying public health workers, permitting valid comparisons across agencies and over time, which does not exist for the public...

This study examined the effect of Recovery Act funding, the NHSC’s workforce become far larger and more diverse than ever and more evenly distributed across states. The NHSC should now set targets and be more deliberate in managing its growth across disciplines and where its clinicians serve. Growth and...

This study sought to examine the status of workforce shortages that may limit CHC expansion. The study used a survey questionnaire of all 846 federally funded US CHCs that directly provide clinical services and are within the 50 states and the District of Columbia, conducted between May and September...

Key results of this report indicate: rural healthcare provider retention is better when the recruitment process follows proven best practices for recruiting rural healthcare providers, resources need to be invested to meet personal needs and expectations to retain rural healthcare providers, and the community has a big role in...

After a year-long consultative effort, this document proposes sixteen evidence-based recommendations on how to improve the recruitment and retention of health workers in underserved areas. It also offers a guide for policy makers to choose the most appropriate interventions, and to implement, monitor and evaluate their impact over time.

Training partnerships between family medicine residencies (FMRs) and community health centers (CHCs) are a potential solution to the chronic problem of health workforce shortages in CHCs. Researchers conducted a national survey to identify the barriers to training family medicine residents in CHCs, and found that governance and administrative complexity...