Primary Care Training and Enhancement
Provides grants and contracts to support and develop primary care training programs through accredited public or nonprofit hospitals, schools of medicine, physician assistant training programs or other public or nonprofit entities the Secretary determines are capable of carrying out a grant or contract. Provides grants or contracts for capacity building in primary care through accredited schools of medicine. Grants or contracts will be used to develop and operate training programs, provide financial assistance to trainees and faculty, enhance faculty development in primary care and physician assistant programs, and establish, maintain, and improve academic units in primary care. Priority is given to programs for a number of reasons, including to those that educate students in team-based approaches to care, including the patient-centered medical home and those approaches that “provide training in enhanced communication with patients, evidence-based practice, chronic disease management, preventive care, health information technology or other competencies recommended by the Advisory committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry and the National Health Care workforce Commission.” Awards would be for a period of 5 years. Authorizes $125 million for 2010 and such sums as may be necessary for 2011-2014. (Sec. 5301)
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