Public Resources
Regional and National Clinicians’ Networks
Other Networks
Northwest
Oregon Primary Care Association
The OPCA is a nonprofit member association of federally qualified health centers that provides advocacy on public policy and assistance to members in order to help decrease health disparities and increase access to comprehensive health care for low income and vulnerable people in Oregon.
Northwest Regional Primary Care Association
NWRPCA is a non-profit membership association of FQHC and clinics serve low-income communites, that works to ensure equal access to primary health care for all residents living in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. The NWRPCA provides a forum to discuss best practices and facilitate peer-to-peer networking through conferences and trainings geared for clinicians working with underserved communities. In addition, the NWRPCA website includes a clinician job search and migrant health clinic listing and resources.
National
Association of Clinicians for the Underserved
ACU is a nonprofit, transdisciplinary organization of clinicians, advocates, and health care organizations united in a common mission to improve the health of America’s underserved populations and to enhance the development and support of the health care clinicians serving these populations.
The ACU website offers professionally resources around many medical topics from family practice to nuerology, with featured journal articles and case presentations updated periodically. ACU also produces several publications, including the newsletter Clinician and the Community and the Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved.
MCN is a national, not-for-profit organization founded in 1984 by clinicians working in migrant health. With nearly 2,000 members, the organization is the oldest and second largest clinical network serving the underserved. MCN’s goal is to improve health care of migrants and other mobile poor populations by providing support, technical assistance, and professional development services to clinicians.
The MCN website offers a wealth of clinically relevant information from patient education resources to clinician resources on providing care for diabetes, eye health, cancer screening, family violence, occupation and environmental health and more to migrant communities. MCN also produces offers webcast and online continuing education in migrant health topics.