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Announcing the Arkansas Good Medicine Fellowship A 12-week program to study and have an impact on your community through an individual health care practice transformation project. Program goals: • Enhance leadership skills • Improve understanding of how social factors affect health • Disseminate strategies to implement trauma- informed care • Teach methods to build team-based care • Improve quality Curriculum includes learning modules, case studies, assigned readings and discussions. The training will identify best practices for trauma-informed care for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), opioid abuse, mental health care and childhood obesity. Primary care providers may continue to work while participating. Fellows receive a $1,200 monthly stipend. Applicants must meet the following minimum requirements: • Practicing two years as a MD, DO or PA • Practice in the field of internal medicine, family medicine, general practice or pediatrics • Practice in a rural setting as defined by HRSA or in a medically underserved area • Medical license in good standing Deadline to apply: Nov. 30, 2019 | Apply online: info.afmc.org/agm Questions? [email protected] ARKANSAS GOOD MEDICINE IS A COLLABORATIVE WORK OF THE ARKANSAS FOUNDATION OF MEDICAL CARE (AFMC), THE ARKANSAS COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE (ARCOM) AND ARcare, A FEDERALLY QUALIFIED HEALTH CENTER. THE FELLOWSHIP IS GRANT FUNDED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES’ HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION. 122 • THE JOURNAL OF THE ARKANSAS MEDICAL SOCIETY VOLUME 116