Rural Health
News by Topic: Graduate medical education
Jan 7, 2025 - Highlights services offered by a rural healthcare provider to be sustainable and attract workforce. Notes the higher than average rate of retaining rural physicians since starting a rural residency program.
Source: WVUA 23 News
Jan 3, 2025 - Announces a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funded project to establish new rural obstetric training graduate medical education opportunities in Maine. The goal of the program is to increase access to specialty care for pregnant patients in rural communities.
Source: Daily Bulldog
HRSA: Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment Program: Updated Methodology To Determine Full-Time Equivalent Resident Count
Federal Register
Dec 30, 2024 - Notice from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) seeking comments on updating the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) Payment Program's method of determining an eligible children's hospital weighted allopathic and osteopathic full-time equivalent (FTE) resident count when it exceeds its direct graduate medical education (GME) FTE resident cap. Comments are due by January 29, 2025.
Source: Federal Register
Dec 25, 2024 - Highlights efforts by Dartmouth Health to address behavioral health provider shortages in New Hampshire. Notes that shortages are most acute in rural areas. Describes the creation of an online database to help students find clinical placements and efforts to reduce burdens for supervisors and host sites.
Source: Valley News
Dec 19, 2024 - Reports on physician shortages in rural communities and efforts to reduce those shortages through practice incentives. Discusses remaining barriers including funding for rural residencies, the amount of time necessary to launch a rural residency, and patient density for specialists.
Source: Medscape Medical News
HRSA: Meetings of the Council on Graduate Medical Education
Federal Register
Dec 19, 2024 - Announcement of public meetings of the Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) to take place throughout the 2025 calendar year. The COGME makes recommendations to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Congress on policy and program development for section 762 of Title VII of the Public Health Service Act (PHS Act). Meetings will be held on April 10-11, 2025, and September 11-12, 2025. Draft agendas and meeting materials will be posted on the COGME website 30 calendar days before each meeting.
Source: Federal Register