This paper provides background on how Health Centers can partner with academic institutions or residency programs to offer service learning programs at Health Centers and thereby foster interest in Health Center careers among the next generation of oral health professionals. The paper explores different collaboration models and provides suggestions about issues for Health Centers to consider when...
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NWRPCA Education Health Center Initative
The Education Health Center Initiative has produced a foundation of qualitative and quantitative evaluation of residency training in health centers, forged a coalition of health center and residency representatives throughout a ten-state region, and has made significant contributions toward the model of training primary care physicians in the health...
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The American Academy of Family Physicians and its chapters represent more than 115,900 family physician, resident, and medical student members. This comprehensive site offers information on family medicine, training, and other issues.
View moreGraham Center: Migration After Family Medicine Residency
Using the 2009 American Medical Association Physician Masterfile, this one-pager notes that 56% of family medicine residents stay within 100 miles of where they graduate from residency.
View moreGraham Center: Projected Impact of the Primary Care Residency Expansion Program Using Historical Trends in Graduate Placement
This one-pager covers the Primary Care Residency Expansion (PCRE) program that was created by the Health Resources and Services Administration in 2010 to help address the shortage of primary care physicians. If historical graduate placement trends for funded programs remain stable, the PCRE program would have a potential impact...
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This directory provides contact information for all the nation’s Area Health Education Centers.
View moreNCHPH Primary Care Workforce and Training of Future Leaders in Underserved Populations
This presentation offers a broad overview and background on social determinants of health, projected workforce shortages, health center employment, and other relevant issues in today’s health care environment.
View moreRHIHub Rural Training Track Technical Assistance Program
The Rural Training Track (RTT) Technical Assistance Program is a consortium that taps the expertise of individuals and programs distributed across the nation in an effort to sustain the RTT residency programs as a national strategy in training physicians for rural practice. Rural Health Information Hub offers many services...
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