Primary Care Training and Enhancement

The Training Primary Care Champions (TPCC) Program (T13) strengthens primary care and the workforce by establishing fellowship programs to train community-based practicing primary care physician and/or physician assistant champions to lead health care transformation and enhance teaching in community-based settings. Awardees must develop academic-community partnerships to train and support primary care physician and or physician assistant champions to lead health care transformation in community-based settings and enhance teaching in community based settings. Applicants are encouraged to partner with National Health Service Corps-approved sites. The Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care (IBHPC) program (T0B) funds innovative training programs that integrate behavioral health care into primary care, particularly in rural and underserved settings with a special emphasis on the treatment of opioid use disorder. The Physician Assistant (PA) Program (D57) increases the number of primary care physician assistants, particularly in rural and underserved settings, and improve primary care training in order to strengthen access to and delivery of primary care services nationally. The PCTE Academic Units (AU) for Primary Care Training and Enhancement Program (UH1) provided the opportunity to request supplemental funding to continue to support collaborative activities that were intended to enable joint research, development of a common community of practice that assisted with dissemination and application of the research into education and practice, and developed plans for sustaining the scope of work of all six centers after federal funding. The PCTE-AU program ended in FY2021. The PCTE Residency Training in Primary Care (RTPC) Program (D58) supports the development of rural and/or underserved residency tracks within existing accredited residency programs for family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics and combined internal medicine and pediatrics (med-peds) programs. The PCTE-Community Prevention and Maternal Health (PCTE-CPMH) program (T34) program trains primary care physicians in maternal health care clinical services or population health in order to improve maternal health outcomes. The program will increase the number of primary care physicians trained in public health and general preventive medicine with maternal health care expertise and the number of primary care physicians trained in enhanced obstetrical care practicing in rural and/or underserved areas. The purpose of the PCTE-Physician Assistant Rural Training (PCTE-PAR) Program is to develop and implement longitudinal clinical rotations for physician assistant trainees in primary care in rural areas. The program also supports the training and development of preceptors in rural areas. The PCTE –Physician Assistant Rural Training in Behavioral Health (PCTE-PARB) Program (T8R) develops clinical rotations for primary care Physician Assistant students in rural areas. It addresses PA training for behavioral health conditions, including prevention, identification, diagnosis, treatment and referral services. The purpose of the PCTE – Language and Disability Access (PCTE-LDA) Program (T5C) is to improve health outcomes by developing curriculum and training medical students, physician assistant students, and primary care medical residents to provide high quality primary care services to individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP) and/or intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The PCTE Residency Training in Street Medicine (RTSM) program (T35) provides training in care for the homeless, in accredited residency programs of family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics and combined internal medicine and pediatrics (med-peds).