The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funded the Teaching Health Center Planning and Development (THCPD) program to support the development of new accredited or expanded community-based primary care residency programs in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine-pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, general dentistry, pediatric dentistry, or geriatrics to support the expansion of the primary care physician and dental workforce in underserved communities.
Each U.S. state is represented by one of the following Regional Hubs.
The WWAMI (Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho) Region Family Medicine Residency Network (FMRN) serves as the Western Hub.