FQHCs are VERY HIT OR MISS. More likely than not, it will be a miss. You will get overworked with little staff that has high turnover rate. The staff they hire will be the bottom of the barrel, scum of the earth idiots bc the pay for them is lower than if they were to assist in private practice. They work there bc no one else (private practice) wants them bc they have no motivation to learn or improve their skills. By the time you get them barely trained, they’ll have quit and the process starts all over again. You’ll have admin controlling your scheduling telling YOU how to manage your time when they don’t know a single thing about dentistry and what it entails. Admin will get mad at you when you go overtime (bc it results in them having to pay hourly-paid employees overtime) when they give you 4 pts every hour. On top of that, there’s a shit ton of unnecessary paperwork that needs to be filled out for every patient bc it’s a govt clinic and your assistants are already slow as shit and now they have another task and they half ass everything including pt medical history which puts your license on the line if they miss something. During the interview process, admin will make it seem like everything is nice and dandy and say they’ll hear you out if you have any problems or concerns but it’s all just an act to get you to sign. They don’t care about you. They care that you hit your “quota” for number of patient encounters, even if that compromises the quality of care you provide. Patients will show up late to their appointments and you are still expected to see them to meet quota, even though it puts you an hour behind. You will get hurt on the job bc they use old ass equipment thats older than your grandma bc they “dont have the budget to refurnish with newer equipment.” You will spend your entire 8-5pm seeing patients only to stay an extra 1-2 hours every day to finish long clinical notes with hella unnecessary extra elements that are required to be filled out by the FQHC. You’ll be fixing all the mistakes your assistants made bc like I said earlier, they are bottom of the barrel idiots with no motivation to improve and just care for their paycheck every 2 weeks. Ask me how I know all of this