BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In this essay-part memoir, part reflection, and part oral history-I review my early professional development, a several years' long progression after residency training, during which I grew from functioning as a technically competent primary care doctor to being a capable and compassionate family physician. As part of that development, and with my colleague John Frey, ...

INTRODUCTION Family physician is the increasing efforts to promote physician and other human resources in the health care systems. GOAL Investigate Human resources situation of the family physician program in six pilot cities in Khuzestan province in the southwest of Iran. METHODS A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted to examine the family physician program in 2011. In this stud...

THE INNOVATION Integrating oral health and primary care has long been a goal for many health care organizations, including Federally Qualified Health Centers. The Ohio Association of Community Health Centers (OACHC) has recently built upon this principle through an initiative that makes blood pressure screening part of the intake process for oral health patients in member health centers—a step ...

F qualifi ed health centers, also known as community health centers (CHCs), care for our nation’s neediest populations. By latest count, 1,128 federally qualifi ed health centers operate more than 8,500 sites serving 20.2 million men, women, and children.1 These numbers are expected to grow with expanded funding via the Patient Protection and Aff ordable Care Act. Community health centers are c...