Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Graduate medical education
Graduate Medical Education Funding
Explores graduate medical education (GME), focusing on types of locations where it is offered and sources of funding available, including Medicare and Medicaid. Describes ways in which states are rethinking GME to better meet the needs of states and communities most impacted by physician workforce shortages, including rural areas. Includes a map with shadings showing levels of Medicare GME-funded residents by state.
Date: 01/2024
Sponsoring organization: National Conference of State Legislatures
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Explores graduate medical education (GME), focusing on types of locations where it is offered and sources of funding available, including Medicare and Medicaid. Describes ways in which states are rethinking GME to better meet the needs of states and communities most impacted by physician workforce shortages, including rural areas. Includes a map with shadings showing levels of Medicare GME-funded residents by state.
Date: 01/2024
Sponsoring organization: National Conference of State Legislatures
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How Tribal Medical Education Programs Could Solve the Rural Health Care Crisis with Natasha Bray, DO
Highlights a partnership between The Cherokee Nation and the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine to address physician recruitment and retention in tribal communities. Discusses physician residencies, cultural competency, national physician shortages, and lessons learned. Transcript beneath podcast player.
Date: 01/2024
Sponsoring organization: American Medical Association
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Highlights a partnership between The Cherokee Nation and the Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine to address physician recruitment and retention in tribal communities. Discusses physician residencies, cultural competency, national physician shortages, and lessons learned. Transcript beneath podcast player.
Date: 01/2024
Sponsoring organization: American Medical Association
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Medical School Graduates in Georgia
Fact sheet with results of a 2023 survey examining Georgia medical school graduates' specialty choice, residency choice, and retention rates. Features statistics including percent of graduates intending to establish their practice in an underserved region or rural community.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce
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Fact sheet with results of a 2023 survey examining Georgia medical school graduates' specialty choice, residency choice, and retention rates. Features statistics including percent of graduates intending to establish their practice in an underserved region or rural community.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce
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Rural Residency Planning and Development Program Profiles
Profiles an overview of each rural graduate medical education (GME) program in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) Program. Includes information on each program's sponsoring institution, start date, class size, specialty, time spent training in rural locations, demographics of each rural practice site, and more.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: RuralGME.org
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Profiles an overview of each rural graduate medical education (GME) program in the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) Program. Includes information on each program's sponsoring institution, start date, class size, specialty, time spent training in rural locations, demographics of each rural practice site, and more.
Date: 2024
Sponsoring organization: RuralGME.org
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Arizona Graduate Medical Education (GME): Growing Arizona's Primary Care Physician Workforce
Presentation slides highlighting training physicians in Arizona. Discusses population growth trends, health professional shortage areas, Medicaid enrollment data, and more. Discusses rural throughout.
Author(s): Dan Derksen
Date: 12/2023
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Presentation slides highlighting training physicians in Arizona. Discusses population growth trends, health professional shortage areas, Medicaid enrollment data, and more. Discusses rural throughout.
Author(s): Dan Derksen
Date: 12/2023
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Defining the Clinical and Procedural Opportunities Available to Residents During Rural Rotations
Results of a study to determine the rate at which emergency medicine residents at a large academic hospital in Minnesota were exposed to certain clinical and procedural experiences (CPEs) while on rural rotations, compared with their usual academic training hospital. Features patient demographics and statistics on CPEs with breakdowns by rural emergency department (ED) patients and academic ED patients.
Author(s): Brandon Haefke, Daniel Scholz, James Homme, Derick Jones
Citation: Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training, 7(6), e10922
Date: 11/2023
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Results of a study to determine the rate at which emergency medicine residents at a large academic hospital in Minnesota were exposed to certain clinical and procedural experiences (CPEs) while on rural rotations, compared with their usual academic training hospital. Features patient demographics and statistics on CPEs with breakdowns by rural emergency department (ED) patients and academic ED patients.
Author(s): Brandon Haefke, Daniel Scholz, James Homme, Derick Jones
Citation: Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training, 7(6), e10922
Date: 11/2023
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Health is Primary: Charting a Path to Equity and Sustainability
Examines factors driving the downward trends in primary care, including fewer clinicians practicing primary care, fewer available appointments, lower spending on primary care, and fewer adults reporting that they have a usual source of primary care. Features a literature review, supply and demand analysis, and recommendations for potential solutions. Mentions rural throughout.
Additional links: Slide Presentation
Author(s): Alison Huffstetler, Ann Greiner, Anam Siddiqi, et al.
Date: 11/2023
Sponsoring organizations: Primary Care Collaborative, Robert Graham Center
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Examines factors driving the downward trends in primary care, including fewer clinicians practicing primary care, fewer available appointments, lower spending on primary care, and fewer adults reporting that they have a usual source of primary care. Features a literature review, supply and demand analysis, and recommendations for potential solutions. Mentions rural throughout.
Additional links: Slide Presentation
Author(s): Alison Huffstetler, Ann Greiner, Anam Siddiqi, et al.
Date: 11/2023
Sponsoring organizations: Primary Care Collaborative, Robert Graham Center
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Residency Training Locations of OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine Graduates, Graduating Classes 2021-2023
Map showing the distribution of Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine graduates in residencies in Oklahoma and across the U.S.
Date: 09/2023
Sponsoring organization: Oklahoma Office of Rural Health
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Map showing the distribution of Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine graduates in residencies in Oklahoma and across the U.S.
Date: 09/2023
Sponsoring organization: Oklahoma Office of Rural Health
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How Academic Medicine Serves Rural Communities Across the Country
Highlights how Association of American Medical Colleges teaching hospitals and medical schools are serving patients in rural communities. Features the work of 6 institutions in North Dakota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, George, Texas, and California, and shares the challenges and successes unique to these communities.
Date: 08/2023
Sponsoring organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
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Highlights how Association of American Medical Colleges teaching hospitals and medical schools are serving patients in rural communities. Features the work of 6 institutions in North Dakota, Mississippi, New Hampshire, George, Texas, and California, and shares the challenges and successes unique to these communities.
Date: 08/2023
Sponsoring organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
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An Examination of Practices and Barriers of Procedures Performed by Physicians in Rural Hawai'i
Surveys 47 rural Hawaiian physicians to evaluate their scope of practice for procedures and learn the barriers to performing procedures. Discusses specialty care, reimbursement, training, time management, resource access, and more.
Author(s): Joseph W. Turban, Eun Ah Cho, Weston McCue, Kelley Withy
Citation: Hawai'i Journal of Health & Social Welfare, 82(8), 183-187
Date: 08/2023
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Surveys 47 rural Hawaiian physicians to evaluate their scope of practice for procedures and learn the barriers to performing procedures. Discusses specialty care, reimbursement, training, time management, resource access, and more.
Author(s): Joseph W. Turban, Eun Ah Cho, Weston McCue, Kelley Withy
Citation: Hawai'i Journal of Health & Social Welfare, 82(8), 183-187
Date: 08/2023
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