Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program - Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program (THCGME): HRSA-23-013 Project Abstract Name of Training Program and Accredited Sponsoring Institution: Mercy One Des Moines/PHC Consortium Discipline: Internal Medicine Type: New application Eligible Entity Type: Consortium/FQHC Grantee: Primary Health Care, Inc. Organization Website: www.phciowa.org Organization CEO: Kelly Huntsman, 515-248-1441 phone; khuntsman@phcinc.net Serves Iowa Congressional Districts: 1, 3 and 4 Primary Health Care, Inc. (PHC) has been providing HRSA supported medical and dental services to the underserved in Des Moines, Iowa (Polk County) since 1981, in Marshalltown, Iowa (Marshall County) since 2001, and in Ames, Iowa (Story County) since 2014. In 2013, PHC partnered with MercyOne Des Moines to form Mercy One Des Moines/PHC Consortium (formerly called Iowa Medical Education Collaborative), a GME consortium, for the purpose of enhancing the quality of primary care services, particularly in underserved and rural communities, by sponsoring and supporting physician post-graduate training programs and developing resources to meet the current and future needs for physicians. In 2013, PHC received funding to become the first Teaching Health Center in Iowa and the Mercy One Des Moines/PHC Consortium began training Internal Medicine residents. Our program is ACGME accredited, and since inception, we have graduated 66 residents. The current program has 30 (10-10-10) residents, and can be more effectively run with an additional 9 (3-3-3) residents, for a total of 39 (13-13-13). The number of new FTE positions requested to be funded for this academic year will be 3 (3-0-0). The additional residents will help to address the burgeoning shortage of primary care providers that is occurring throughout the nation and in Iowa, and is particularly acute in underserved areas. The program utilizes the MercyOne Des Moines downtown hospital (experienced in resident training) as its main training site for inpatient and critical care training. PHC’s East Side clinic serves as the site of the current continuity clinic, with other PHC locations also serving as rotational sites for experiences in HIV care, medication assisted treatment, women’s health, integrated behavioral health and care provided to our homeless population. Community sites for primary care and specialty services are provided in Des Moines. These training sites serve our target populations which include the low-income, uninsured, and underserved in Polk, Marshall and Story County. With this application, we propose to add additional outpatient rotations/electives and additional outpatient didactic training in topics pertinent to outpatient care in underserved and rural communities.
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