Becoming a Teaching Health Center: TIPS FOR HEALTH CENTER BOARDS

Published by National Association of Community Health Centers (2022)

Fewer and fewer medical school graduates are pursuing careers in primary care, many current primary care providers plan to retire, and the pandemic has made it more challenging to retain existing providers. Teaching Health Centers aim to ensure that primary care providers continue to work in low-income communities, by providing training at federally qualified health centers (“health centers” in this document) and similar sites. Research by the Institute of Family Health, based in New York, shows that residents who train in health centers and look alikes are more likely to practice in medically underserved areas.

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