The Family Medicine Faculty Development Program (FDP) at the University of Arizona College of Medicine (UACOM) will address the need for more family medicine faculty for a rapidly growing area of the country. The population of Arizona is projected to grow from 5.1 million in the year 2000 to 6.6 million in 2010, and 8.5 million in 2020. The state has a physician population ratio of 219/100,000, compared to a national average of 293/100,000. There are many rural parts of the state with severe physician shortages; less than 40 physicians per 100,000. The number of graduate medical education positions (residency training positions) and medical student positions is below what is needed for the state. The situation regarding medical education is rapidly changing. The number of medical students at the UACOM will increase from 110 in 2006 to 260 within a decade. This growth started in 2007 with the acceptance of the first class of 24 students at the new Phoenix Campus. The Phoenix Campus is a four-year branch campus of the UACOM Tucson, and will grow steadily to a class of 150 in the next decade. The new curriculum, which is used at both campuses, is heavily dependent on family medicine educators in the first two years of introductory clinical training, a required third-year clerkship (with many clerkship sites located in rural and inner city medically underserved areas), a required fourth year sub internship (with family medicine being an option for this requirement) and the Rural Health Professions Program. The state is also anticipating an expansion of residency training capacity, which will create a need for family medicine residency faculty. In addition to addressing the need for increased numbers of family medicine educators, the FDP will address the need for family medicine educators to be proficient is five areas of contemporary and evolving topics: the primary care of AIDS/HIV patients in rural and inner city areas, genomics and personalized medicine, quality improvement, access to care by vulnerable and underserved populations, and physician/public health system collaborations. Training in each of the areas will be added to the FDP. Proposed Projects: The UACOM FDP consists of two fellowships: a Family Medicine Master Educator Fellowship and a Community Preceptor Faculty Development Fellowship. The Master Educator Fellowship consists of monthly, all day training by a selected group of promising family medicine faculty and senior residents, and occurs at the Phoenix campus, except for two sessions in Tucson. The Community Preceptor Faculty Development Fellowship utilizes the Arizona Telemedicine Program (ATP) to train community-based family physicians at locations close to their clinical settings. This training occurs for one half-day, monthly. The Master Educator Fellowship (Project 1) will expand the numbers of Fellows trained each year to 12 by recruiting and selecting additional fellows from family physicians who work in medically underserved areas. The recruitment will target physicians at community health centers, the Indian Health Service, and other sites that provide services to the medically underserved. This expansion will also focus on increasing the number of trainees from under represented minorities. Project 1 will also be enhanced by the addition of training in quality improvement, access to care by the homeless, genomics, and physician/public health collaborations, with a focus on preparedness for pandemic influenza. There will be a required scholarly project and a required, applied, quality improvement project. The Community Preceptor Faculty Development Fellowship will expand to train 12 community-based physicians per year and by including physicians who practice in urban underserved areas outside of Phoenix, without reducing the number of fellows from rural areas. This expansion will also focus on recruiting and accepting family physicians who are members of under represented minorities. The curriculum will be enhanced by adding the topics of genomics, the primary care of HIV/AIDS patients and quality improvement. The population served by projects 1 and 2 is that of the entire state. The community preceptors trained in Project 2 serve as faculty for our students in the family medicine clerkship, fourth year sub internships, fourth year preceptorships, and the Rural Health Professions Program. These clinical rotations occur throughout the state. Project 1 will train master family medicine educators, who will also serve as faculty for the medical student rotations and who will become faculty for the state’s family medicine residency programs. Each new curriculum component will be evaluated using before and after methodology to document the attainment of desired knowledge and skills. The long term outcome of the fellowship training will be evaluated by tracking the fellowship graduates and their career paths and academic outputs. The results of these evaluations, as well as a description of the successful teaching methodologies will be shared with other family medicine educators through presentations at national meetings and publications in medical education journals.