UAMS Receives Funds to Train Primary Care Providers

The UAMS Family Medicine program in Little Rock has received an award of $900,000 in Affordable Care Act funding. Health and Human Services (HHS) announced $83.4 million has been provided to support primary care residency programs in 60 Teaching Health Centers across the nation.

Nationally, the funding will help train more than 550 residents during the 2014-2015 academic year, increasing the number of residents trained in the previous academic year by more than 200 and helping to increase access to health care in communities across the country.

Created by the Affordable Care Act, the Teaching Health Center Program expands residency training in community-based settings. Residents will be trained in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, geriatrics and general dentistry.