Expansion of Residency Training Programs of Federally Qualified Community Health Centers (FQHCs) and Teaching Health Centers (THCs)

The AAFP supports expansion of residency training programs at FQHCs provided there is:

• An identifiable and sustainable funding stream for graduate medical education,
• An equitable distribution of the funding between education and service delivery, and
• A clear commitment of the organizational mission to education, including protected teaching time for clinical faculty.

The AAFP also supports expansion and permanence of the THC Graduate Medical Education program as a way to increase family medicine residency training.. (2007 COD) (September 2022 COD)