Rural Health
News by Topic: Health workforce pipeline
Dec 9, 2025 - Highlights a regional program pairing medical students with physician mentors as a method to recruit and retain healthcare professionals in rural communities. Profiles one student-mentor pair in Wyoming.
Source: Wyoming Public Radio
Dec 1, 2025 - Highlights the work of rural pharmacists around New Mexico and their paths to rural practice. Discusses initiatives to address primary care physician shortages by increasing a pharmacist's scope of practice, efforts to recruit rural students to the pharmacy field, and networking across the state.
Source: UNM Health Sciences News
Nov 25, 2025 - Profiles a rural general surgeon practicing in rural Kansas. Describes her path to rural practice beginning with an undergraduate rural pipeline program.
Source: KU School of Medicine Wichita
Nov 24, 2025 - Describes partnerships between the University of Rochester and rural New York schools. Highlights a program to increase the school-based mental healthcare workforce through a graduate student internship, rural-focused professional development, and high school curriculum aiming to introduce students to mental healthcare professions. Also describes other education and professional development collaborations with the University.
Source: University of Rochester News Center
Nov 24, 2025 - Describes the Rural Occupations Workforce Expansion program, an initiative to recruit rural South Carolinians to train for behavioral health jobs. Discusses challenges for local residents in accessing mental health care.
Source: WCSC
Nov 14, 2025 - Highlights a participatory experience for Tennessee high school students interested in healthcare professions. Representatives from area rural healthcare agencies gave students an opportunity to apply learned skills in simulated scenarios and learn about career opportunities in the area.
Source: Radio NWTN
Oct 24, 2025 - Profiles a University of Nebraska at Kearney student athlete participating in a program to increase the rural healthcare workforce in the state. Describes the program's experiential learning opportunities as well as how religion and sports are helping prepare him to work in rural healthcare.
Source: Central Nebraska Today
Oct 14, 2025 - Highlights a newly funded program in an Alabama community college to address workforce shortages in rural Alabama. The program aims to recruit local residents into healthcare positions through facility tours, shadowing opportunities, and clinicals in rural facilities. Additionally, new degree pathways and dual enrollment programs will allow students to obtain credentials more quickly.
Source: WDHN