Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Physicians
Medicaid Primary Care Workforce Tracker
Interactive tool presenting state and county-level data on the primary care workforce providing healthcare to Medicaid enrollees. Uses data from the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) from 2016-2019 to identify primary care clinicians who saw Medicaid beneficiaries each year.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity
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Interactive tool presenting state and county-level data on the primary care workforce providing healthcare to Medicaid enrollees. Uses data from the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) from 2016-2019 to identify primary care clinicians who saw Medicaid beneficiaries each year.
Type: Map/Mapping System
Sponsoring organization: Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity
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2020 New Hampshire Physician Workforce Data Report
An overview of the physician workforce in New Hampshire based on data from the 2020 Physician Licensure Survey. Features statistics including demographics, distribution, education, practice capacity, acceptance of new patients, and retention, with breakdowns by rural and nonrural location.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
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An overview of the physician workforce in New Hampshire based on data from the 2020 Physician Licensure Survey. Features statistics including demographics, distribution, education, practice capacity, acceptance of new patients, and retention, with breakdowns by rural and nonrural location.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
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Bureau of Health Workforce Field Strength and Students and Trainees Dashboards
Data tools and information related to the National Health Service Corps, Nurse Corps, and Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program participants. Allows users to access subsets of data by filtering on various program, location, shortage designation, and site attributes, including rural location. Offers insight into disciplines and school locations of future clinicians preparing to serve in shortage areas across the country.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
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Data tools and information related to the National Health Service Corps, Nurse Corps, and Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Recovery Loan Repayment Program participants. Allows users to access subsets of data by filtering on various program, location, shortage designation, and site attributes, including rural location. Offers insight into disciplines and school locations of future clinicians preparing to serve in shortage areas across the country.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
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Iowa Family Physician Magazine
Archive of Iowa Family Physician Magazine's seasonal publication. Covers issues relevant to medical students, resident physicians, healthcare legislation, and more. Includes rural-specific information related to loan repayment programs, scholarships, and healthcare access, among other resources tailored to rural physicians.
Type: Journal/Newsletter
Sponsoring organization: Iowa Academy of Family Physicians
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Archive of Iowa Family Physician Magazine's seasonal publication. Covers issues relevant to medical students, resident physicians, healthcare legislation, and more. Includes rural-specific information related to loan repayment programs, scholarships, and healthcare access, among other resources tailored to rural physicians.
Type: Journal/Newsletter
Sponsoring organization: Iowa Academy of Family Physicians
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Indiana Physician Workforce Dashboards
Presents information on the physician workforce in Indiana, including geographic supply trends, demographics, education, and practice and specialty. Provides population to provider ratios broken down by county and metro versus nonmetro.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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Presents information on the physician workforce in Indiana, including geographic supply trends, demographics, education, and practice and specialty. Provides population to provider ratios broken down by county and metro versus nonmetro.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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Physician Needs Indicator Worksheet
Helps determine how many physicians are needed in a community. Spreadsheet can by used to input service area population to see how many full-time equivalent physicians are needed, or to input service area and existing physician complement to see areas of over- or under-availability.
Author(s): Stroudwater Associates
Type: Tool
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Helps determine how many physicians are needed in a community. Spreadsheet can by used to input service area population to see how many full-time equivalent physicians are needed, or to input service area and existing physician complement to see areas of over- or under-availability.
Author(s): Stroudwater Associates
Type: Tool
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Virginia Project ECHO
Connects groups of community providers with healthcare specialists in collaborative sessions that offer case-based learning and mentorship to help them gain the expertise required to provides specialty care to patients with complex health conditions. Offers continuing medical education (CME) units and continuing nursing education units.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Department of Health
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Connects groups of community providers with healthcare specialists in collaborative sessions that offer case-based learning and mentorship to help them gain the expertise required to provides specialty care to patients with complex health conditions. Offers continuing medical education (CME) units and continuing nursing education units.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organization: Virginia Department of Health
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South Carolina - Project ECHO
A tele-mentoring, guided practice model that focuses on moving knowledge and not people by offering specialty expertise to primary care providers so they may effectively manage patients with complex health needs in their own clinics. Offers physicians and pharmacists professional accreditation for participation.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organization: University of North Carolina School of Medicine
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A tele-mentoring, guided practice model that focuses on moving knowledge and not people by offering specialty expertise to primary care providers so they may effectively manage patients with complex health needs in their own clinics. Offers physicians and pharmacists professional accreditation for participation.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organization: University of North Carolina School of Medicine
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Care Compare
Provides information on the quality of care, cost, volume of services, and other data for Medicare-certified providers. Includes data on doctors and clinicians, hospitals, nursing homes, home health services, hospice care, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals, and dialysis facilities.
Type: Database
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Provides information on the quality of care, cost, volume of services, and other data for Medicare-certified providers. Includes data on doctors and clinicians, hospitals, nursing homes, home health services, hospice care, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals, and dialysis facilities.
Type: Database
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Pathways to Safer Opioid Use Training
An interactive, online training for a variety of healthcare providers with a focus on the appropriate, safe, and effective use of opioids to manage chronic pain based on the recommendations in the National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention (ADE Action Plan). Continuing pharmacy education (CPE) credit or continuing medical education (CME) credit maybe offered upon completion of the program.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organizations: Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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An interactive, online training for a variety of healthcare providers with a focus on the appropriate, safe, and effective use of opioids to manage chronic pain based on the recommendations in the National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention (ADE Action Plan). Continuing pharmacy education (CPE) credit or continuing medical education (CME) credit maybe offered upon completion of the program.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organizations: Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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