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Program Components

Networking

• Forming interdisciplinary and statewide partnerships
• Sharing and coordinating resources
• Developing new, creative strategies for providing primary care services for medically underserved population

Community Experiences

• Training health care professionals who understand rural communities
• Providing service-linked educational community experiences in underserved areas
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Mentoring

• Linking individuals throughout the educational continuum to support primary care to medically underserved populations

Faculty Development

• Promoting programs to provide opportunities for primary care providers to develop their teaching skills
• Training of community-based faculty who are involved in teaching students, residents and other health care professionals

Clinical Experiences

• Providing a variety of primary care clinical learning experiences in medically underserved areas
• Training culturally competent health care professional