Rural Primary Care Physician Workforce Expansion: An Opportunity for Bipartisan Legislation

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Recommends expansion of graduate medical education (GME) support in teaching health centers (THCs) as a way to address the shortage of rural primary care physicians. Proposes an expanded version of the community health center and academic medicine partnerships (CHAMP) model that would help in the development of rural THCs.

Richard E. Rieselbach, Robert L. Phillips, Thomas J. Nasca, Byron J. Crouse

Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 5(4), 556-559

12/2013

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Federally Qualified Health Centers · Graduate medical education · Physicians · Policy · Primary care