TY - JOUR
KW - Academic Medical Centers/organization & administration
KW - California
KW - Community Health Services/organization & administration
KW - Curriculum
KW - Humans
KW - Internal Medicine/education/standards
KW - Internship and Residency
KW - Job Satisfaction
KW - Medically Underserved Area
KW - Primary Health Care
KW - Quality of Health Care/standards
AU - T. L. Fancher
AU - C. Keenan
AU - C. Meltvedt
AU - T. Stocker
AU - T. Harris
AU - J. Morfin
AU - R. McCarron
AU - M. Kulkarni-Date
AU - M. C. Henderson
A1 - 
AB - Despite the need for a robust primary care workforce, the number of students and residents choosing general internal medicine careers continues to decline. In this article, the authors describe their efforts at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine to bolster interest in internal medicine careers and improve the quality of care for medically underserved populations through a tailored third-year residency track developed in partnership with the Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services. The Transforming Education and Community Health (TEACH) Program improves continuity of care between inpatient and outpatient settings, creates a new multidisciplinary teaching clinic in the Sacramento County health system, and prepares residents to provide coordinated care for vulnerable populations. Since its inception in 2005, 25 residents have graduated from the TEACH Program. Compared with national rates, TEACH graduates are more likely to practice general internal medicine and to practice in medically underserved settings. TEACH residents report high job satisfaction and provide equal or higher-quality diabetes care than that indicated by national benchmarks. The authors provide an overview of the TEACH Program, including curriculum details, preliminary outcomes, barriers to continued and expanded implementation, and thoughts about the future of the program.
BT - Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
C5 - Education & Workforce
CP - 2
CY - United States
DO - 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31820469ba
IS - 2
JF - Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
N2 - Despite the need for a robust primary care workforce, the number of students and residents choosing general internal medicine careers continues to decline. In this article, the authors describe their efforts at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine to bolster interest in internal medicine careers and improve the quality of care for medically underserved populations through a tailored third-year residency track developed in partnership with the Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services. The Transforming Education and Community Health (TEACH) Program improves continuity of care between inpatient and outpatient settings, creates a new multidisciplinary teaching clinic in the Sacramento County health system, and prepares residents to provide coordinated care for vulnerable populations. Since its inception in 2005, 25 residents have graduated from the TEACH Program. Compared with national rates, TEACH graduates are more likely to practice general internal medicine and to practice in medically underserved settings. TEACH residents report high job satisfaction and provide equal or higher-quality diabetes care than that indicated by national benchmarks. The authors provide an overview of the TEACH Program, including curriculum details, preliminary outcomes, barriers to continued and expanded implementation, and thoughts about the future of the program.
PP - United States
PY - 2011
SN - 1938-808X; 1040-2446
SP - 252
EP - 258
EP - 
T1 - An academic-community partnership to improve care for the underserved
T2 - Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
TI - An academic-community partnership to improve care for the underserved
U1 - Education & Workforce
U2 - 21169777
U3 - 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31820469ba
VL - 86
VO - 1938-808X; 1040-2446
Y1 - 2011
ER -