A Mixed-Methods Study of Teaching Health Center Residents' Experiences of Mentorship, Career Planning, and Postresidency Practice Environments.

Purpose: The Teaching Health Center (THC) Graduate Medical Education program enables primary care physicians to train in community-based, underserved settings by shifting the payment structure and training environment for graduate medical education. To understand how THCs have successfully trained primary care physicians who practice in community-based settings, the authors conducted a mixed-methods exploratory study to examine THC residency graduates' experiences of mentorship and career planning during their residencies, perceptions of preparation for postresidency practice, and how these experiences were related to postresidency practice environments.

Method: Surveys were conducted for all 804 graduating THC residents nationally, 2014-2017 (533 respondents, 66% response rate).

Primary Care Residents in Teaching Health Centers: Their Intentions to Practice in Underserved Settings After Residency Training.

Purpose: To describe the residents who chose to train in teaching health centers (THCs), which are community-based ambulatory patient care sites that sponsor primary care residencies, and their intentions to practice in underserved settings.

Method: The authors surveyed all THC residents training in academic years 2013-2014, 2014-2015, and 2015-2016, comparing their demographic characteristics with data for residents nationally, and examined THC residents' intentions to practice in underserved settings using logistic regression analysis.

Results: The overall survey response rate was 89% (1,031/1,153).

A comparison of alternative methods for measuring cigarette prices.

Background: Government agencies, public health organisations and tobacco control researchers rely on accurate estimates of cigarette prices for a variety of purposes. Since the 1950s, the Tax Burden on Tobacco (TBOT) has served as the most widely used source of this price data despite its limitations.

Purpose: This paper compares the prices and collection methods of the TBOT retail-based data and the 2003 and 2006/2007 waves of the population-based Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey (TUS-CPS).