Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Health workforce education and training
Twenty-Second Report: The Role of Graduate Medical Education in the New Health Care Paradigm
Presents seven recommendations from the Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) regarding the expansion of Graduate Medical Education training. Suggests expanding GME clinical training into ambulatory and community settings, and ensuring accountability including providing rural and underserved practice locations. Discusses the need for increased funding for GME, and providing future physicians with the training and skills needed for emerging care delivery systems.
Date: 11/2014
Sponsoring organization: Council on Graduate Medical Education
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Presents seven recommendations from the Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) regarding the expansion of Graduate Medical Education training. Suggests expanding GME clinical training into ambulatory and community settings, and ensuring accountability including providing rural and underserved practice locations. Discusses the need for increased funding for GME, and providing future physicians with the training and skills needed for emerging care delivery systems.
Date: 11/2014
Sponsoring organization: Council on Graduate Medical Education
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Transforming Interprofessional Health Education and Practice: Moving Learners from the Campus to the Community to Improve Population Health
13th Annual Report to the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the Congress of the United States. Examines how health professions education and healthcare delivery can be transformed through interprofessional collaboration and community-based learning. Presents four recommendations for health professions educators, policymakers, and funders. Includes sections on the Quentin N. Burdick Program for Rural Interdisciplinary Training, Area Health Education Centers, and educational support for health professionals serving in underserved communities.
Date: 10/2014
Sponsoring organization: Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary Community-Based Linkages
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13th Annual Report to the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the Congress of the United States. Examines how health professions education and healthcare delivery can be transformed through interprofessional collaboration and community-based learning. Presents four recommendations for health professions educators, policymakers, and funders. Includes sections on the Quentin N. Burdick Program for Rural Interdisciplinary Training, Area Health Education Centers, and educational support for health professionals serving in underserved communities.
Date: 10/2014
Sponsoring organization: Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary Community-Based Linkages
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Building Health Workforce Capacity Through Community-Based Health Professional Education: Workshop Summary
Highlights from a workshop held May 1-2, 2014, discussing the increased focus on community-based health and healthcare, and interprofessional collaborations. Discusses the current financial and structural design of health professional education. Presents examples of interprofessional, community-based programs and curricula for educating health professionals. Mentions rural throughout.
Additional links: Read Online
Author(s): Patricia A. Cuff
Date: 10/2014
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Highlights from a workshop held May 1-2, 2014, discussing the increased focus on community-based health and healthcare, and interprofessional collaborations. Discusses the current financial and structural design of health professional education. Presents examples of interprofessional, community-based programs and curricula for educating health professionals. Mentions rural throughout.
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Author(s): Patricia A. Cuff
Date: 10/2014
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Unfreezing the Flexnerian Model: Introducing Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships in Rural Communities
Investigates the perspective of physicians introduced to rural health through a nine-month Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) to measure the effectiveness of the LIC model in increasing the rural health workforce.
Author(s): Robert Bing-You, Robert Trowbridge, Catherine Kruithoff, John L. Daggett Jr.
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 14(3), 2944
Date: 08/2014
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Investigates the perspective of physicians introduced to rural health through a nine-month Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) to measure the effectiveness of the LIC model in increasing the rural health workforce.
Author(s): Robert Bing-You, Robert Trowbridge, Catherine Kruithoff, John L. Daggett Jr.
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 14(3), 2944
Date: 08/2014
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Performance of Third-Year Medical Students on a Rural Family Medicine Clerkship
Examines the academic performance of University of Kansas medical students who chose a rural location for required clerkships in family medicine, surgery, pediatrics, and obstetrics-gynecology from 1999-2011. Includes statistics with breakdowns by mean scores on Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), mean clerkship and shelf exam grades, and mean grade point averages for undergraduate and medical school classes.
Author(s): Hannah Maxfield, Michael Kennedy, John E. Delzell, Jr, Anthony M. Paolo
Citation: Family Medicine, 46(7), 536-538
Date: 07/2014
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Examines the academic performance of University of Kansas medical students who chose a rural location for required clerkships in family medicine, surgery, pediatrics, and obstetrics-gynecology from 1999-2011. Includes statistics with breakdowns by mean scores on Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), mean clerkship and shelf exam grades, and mean grade point averages for undergraduate and medical school classes.
Author(s): Hannah Maxfield, Michael Kennedy, John E. Delzell, Jr, Anthony M. Paolo
Citation: Family Medicine, 46(7), 536-538
Date: 07/2014
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Graduate Medical Education That Meets the Nation's Health Needs
Reviews the system supporting graduate medical education (GME) and discusses how it supports or creates barriers to the development of the physician workforce the nation needs. A section on geographic maldistribution on pages 43-44 discusses the rural physician workforce. The report also discusses GME issues related to rural health facilities, including Table 3-8 (p. 83), with data on rural hospital GME.
Additional links: Read Online
Author(s): Committee on the Governance and Financing of Graduate Medical Education
Date: 07/2014
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Reviews the system supporting graduate medical education (GME) and discusses how it supports or creates barriers to the development of the physician workforce the nation needs. A section on geographic maldistribution on pages 43-44 discusses the rural physician workforce. The report also discusses GME issues related to rural health facilities, including Table 3-8 (p. 83), with data on rural hospital GME.
Additional links: Read Online
Author(s): Committee on the Governance and Financing of Graduate Medical Education
Date: 07/2014
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Preventing Rural Workforce by Design
Argues that the lack of primary care physicians in rural America could have been and can still be avoided. Discusses how policies aimed to attract recent graduates to primary healthcare, rather than specialty healthcare, can help address disparities between rural and urban healthcare.
Author(s): Robert Bowman, Michael Halasy
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 14(2), 2852
Date: 06/2014
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Argues that the lack of primary care physicians in rural America could have been and can still be avoided. Discusses how policies aimed to attract recent graduates to primary healthcare, rather than specialty healthcare, can help address disparities between rural and urban healthcare.
Author(s): Robert Bowman, Michael Halasy
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 14(2), 2852
Date: 06/2014
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Support for Rural Recruitment and Practice among U.S. Nurse Practitioner Education Programs
Examines nurse practitioner (NP) education programs across the U.S. to identify those actively promoting NP practice in rural areas. Describes their use of education methods that may promote rural practice and identifies barriers to recruiting rural students and providing rural NP clinical training.
Author(s): Susan M. Skillman, Louise Kaplan, C. Holly A. Andrilla, Stefanie Ostergard, Davis G. Patterson
Date: 05/2014
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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Examines nurse practitioner (NP) education programs across the U.S. to identify those actively promoting NP practice in rural areas. Describes their use of education methods that may promote rural practice and identifies barriers to recruiting rural students and providing rural NP clinical training.
Author(s): Susan M. Skillman, Louise Kaplan, C. Holly A. Andrilla, Stefanie Ostergard, Davis G. Patterson
Date: 05/2014
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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A Qualitative Study of Medical Students in a Rural Track: Views on Eventual Rural Practice
Studied medical students enrolled in a rural track (RT). Conclusions showed that despite enrollment in an RT program, students with rural and primary care practice interests are often not committed to rural practice; however such RTs may provide a gathering place for interested students within medical school.
Author(s): Carrie Roseamelia, James L. Greenwald, Tiffany Bush, Morgan Pratte
Citation: Family Medicine, 46(4), 259-266
Date: 04/2014
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Studied medical students enrolled in a rural track (RT). Conclusions showed that despite enrollment in an RT program, students with rural and primary care practice interests are often not committed to rural practice; however such RTs may provide a gathering place for interested students within medical school.
Author(s): Carrie Roseamelia, James L. Greenwald, Tiffany Bush, Morgan Pratte
Citation: Family Medicine, 46(4), 259-266
Date: 04/2014
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Graduate Medical Education for Rural Practice
A joint statement of the NRHA and the American Academy of Family Physicians. Describes how graduate medical education including rural training tracks (RTTs) have contributed to residency education that prepares physicians to practice in rural environments. Lists recommendations to further address the training of residents in rural medicine.
Date: 04/2014
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
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A joint statement of the NRHA and the American Academy of Family Physicians. Describes how graduate medical education including rural training tracks (RTTs) have contributed to residency education that prepares physicians to practice in rural environments. Lists recommendations to further address the training of residents in rural medicine.
Date: 04/2014
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
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