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- SUMMARY: The Teaching Health Center Roundtable - Preparing Residents for Primary Care Practice
October 27, 2009 - Medical Education Futures Study
While patient care increasingly occurs in ambulatory settings, medical education occurs mainly in inpatient hospital facilities. This produces a health care workforce whose skills and experiences are poorly matched to the primary care needs of the population. The Teaching Health Center model moves residency education from the hospital to the community. Developing residency programs within community-based ambulatory primary care settings such as health centers, with the appropriate infrastructure investment, will ultimately produce a primary care workforce ready to deliver health care in a reformed, cost-effective system. Teaching in health centers will also bolster the health center workforce by increasing recruitment and retention for existing staff and providing a pool of graduates to recruit in the future.
Roundtable Presentations:
- Frederick Chen, MD MPH, University of Washington – Teaching Health Centers: Reviewing the Evidence
- Michelle Proser, MPP, National Association of Community Health Centers – NACHC Update on Related Research and Policies
- Mick Huppert, MPH, Community Health Connection, Inc., Fitchburg, MA – How to Grow Your Own Family Physicians
- Thomas Bacon, Dr. P.H., North Carolina AHEC Program – Primary Care Residency Training in AHEC Settings: The North Carolina Experience
- Ted Epperly, MD, Family Medicine Residency of Idaho – Teaching Health Center
- Candice Chen, MD MPH, George Washington University – Teaching Health Center Legislative Update
- The Case for Teaching Health Centers
- Future of Medical Education to be Examined in Era of Expansion and Reform
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