Faculty Development in Primary Care

Objectives 1. Increase the number of family practice physicians trained to pursue careers as clinicianresearchers, preparing them to address the needs of an aging population. 2. Further develop our cadre of Community-Based Faculty, for both family practice resident and student education, though a Type IV Community Preceptor Training program with emphases on teaching geriatrics, teaching a new predoctoral rural training track curriculum, and teaching our rural track residents.