Obstacles and Opportunities on the Path to Improving Health Professions Education and Practice: Lessons From HRSA’s Academic Units for Primary Care Training and Enhancement

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EDI TOR IA L students (both in recruitment and retention), and developing relationships with community partners. CONCLUSIONSThis supplement highlights the activities of the 6 HRSAfunded Academic Units. The previous and current work of these units offers a host of observations, insights, and ideas for advancing health care equity, promoting interprofessional collaboration, transforming education, and improving practice. Some of the findings presented here are preliminary, and some of the ideals and principles remain to be widely executed. We are hopeful that the Academic Units's work will add momentum to other efforts to reimagine primary care and create health care that is whole-person oriented, interprofessional, community focused, and equitable. 27Read or post commentaries in response to this article.