Resumen de Innovative Primary Care Training: The Cambridge Health Alliance Oral Physician Program.

Donald B. Giddon, Brittany Anne Seymour, Brian Swann, Nina K. Anderson, Yasas S. N. Jayaratne, Jason Outlaw, Elsbeth Kalenderian

• We evaluated the Oral Physician Program, a dental residency sponsored by Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, and the Cambridge Health Alliance that offers an innovative model for training dentists to provide limited primary care. The didactic and clinical experiences increased residents' medical knowledge and interviewing skills, and faculty assessments supported their role as oral physicians. Oral physicians could increase patients'- especially patients from under-served groups-access to integrated oral and primary care services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]