title: Special contribution: transforming a neighborhood health center into a community-oriented primary care practice.
abstract: We describe a community-oriented primary care (COPC) preventive medicine residency. Through the residency, medical, nursing, dental, and other health professionals work as fellows to combine clinical and public health skills in primary care practices. We describe the steps that fellows used to begin transforming one community health center into a COPC practice, and we highlight the activities of one specific environmental cleanliness project as an example. COPC activities have laid the foundation for further advances in developing a professional partnership between the center and the community it serves.
authors.affiliation: Community-Oriented Primary Care Program, Carney Hospital, Boston, MA 02124.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Klevens
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Cashman
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Margules
authors.forename: H S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Fulmer
mesh_terms: D001900:Boston; D003151:Community Health Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships; D006282:Health Personnel; D006293:Health Promotion; D011315:Preventive Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011635:Public Health Administration; D014481:United States