Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Health workforce education and training
Future of Emergency Care Series: Emergency Care for Children: Growing Pains
Part two in a series of three reports from the Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System. Examines pediatric emergency and trauma care. This report is also a follow-up to the 1993 report Emergency Medical Services for Children. Discusses issues related to rural pediatric emergency and trauma care.
Additional links: Read Online
Date: 2007
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Part two in a series of three reports from the Committee on the Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System. Examines pediatric emergency and trauma care. This report is also a follow-up to the 1993 report Emergency Medical Services for Children. Discusses issues related to rural pediatric emergency and trauma care.
Additional links: Read Online
Date: 2007
Sponsoring organization: Health and Medicine Division (HMD), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Will Rural Family Medicine Residency Training Survive?
Examines the performance of rural residencies in the National Resident Matching Program as an indicator of their viability.
Author(s): Roger Rosenblatt, Amy Hagopian, Holly Andrilla, Gary Hart
Citation: Family Medicine, 38(10), 705-711
Date: 11/2006
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Examines the performance of rural residencies in the National Resident Matching Program as an indicator of their viability.
Author(s): Roger Rosenblatt, Amy Hagopian, Holly Andrilla, Gary Hart
Citation: Family Medicine, 38(10), 705-711
Date: 11/2006
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Training Community Health Workers: Using Technology and Distance Education
Highlights programs and issues related to the use of technology and distance education to train community health workers (CHWs) in frontier areas. Includes examples of successful programs.
Date: 04/2006
Sponsoring organization: Federal Office of Rural Health Policy
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Highlights programs and issues related to the use of technology and distance education to train community health workers (CHWs) in frontier areas. Includes examples of successful programs.
Date: 04/2006
Sponsoring organization: Federal Office of Rural Health Policy
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Pathways to Rural Practice: A Chartbook of Family Medicine Residency Training Locations and Characteristics
Discusses characteristics and geographic locations of family medicine residency programs' rural locations, types of rural family medicine training by location, and rural mission of family medicine residencies.
Author(s): L. Gary Hart, Denise M. Lishner, Eric H. Larson, et al.
Date: 08/2005
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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Discusses characteristics and geographic locations of family medicine residency programs' rural locations, types of rural family medicine training by location, and rural mission of family medicine residencies.
Author(s): L. Gary Hart, Denise M. Lishner, Eric H. Larson, et al.
Date: 08/2005
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
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Community Health Worker (CHW) Certification and Training: A National Survey of Regionally and State-Based Programs
Provides a national overview of state policy and state involvement in more formal training and certification of community health workers. Analyzes the potential effects of these policy trends.
Author(s): Marlynn L. May, Bita Kash, Ricardo Contreras
Date: 05/2005
Sponsoring organization: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
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Provides a national overview of state policy and state involvement in more formal training and certification of community health workers. Analyzes the potential effects of these policy trends.
Author(s): Marlynn L. May, Bita Kash, Ricardo Contreras
Date: 05/2005
Sponsoring organization: Southwest Rural Health Research Center
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Factors that Influence Students in Choosing Rural Nursing Practice: A Pilot Study
Reports findings from a survey of nursing students, examining self-identified factors of students who expressed an interest in rural practice post-graduation.
Author(s): Angeline Bushy, Beverly Leipert
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 5(2), 387
Date: 04/2005
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Reports findings from a survey of nursing students, examining self-identified factors of students who expressed an interest in rural practice post-graduation.
Author(s): Angeline Bushy, Beverly Leipert
Citation: Rural and Remote Health, 5(2), 387
Date: 04/2005
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Update on the Physician Workforce
Compendium of three policy papers on the physician workforce, two of which address rural issues. The first paper provides data on the supply and distribution of physicians, including rural-specific national data, with state-by-state data in Appendix B. The second paper focuses on the rural family physician workforce, with supply projections through 2020.
Date: 08/2000
Sponsoring organization: Council on Graduate Medical Education
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Compendium of three policy papers on the physician workforce, two of which address rural issues. The first paper provides data on the supply and distribution of physicians, including rural-specific national data, with state-by-state data in Appendix B. The second paper focuses on the rural family physician workforce, with supply projections through 2020.
Date: 08/2000
Sponsoring organization: Council on Graduate Medical Education
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Emergency Medical Services Education Agenda for the Future: A Systems Approach
Shares a vision for an emergency medical services (EMS) education system that emphasizes the integration of EMS within the overall healthcare system. Discusses a systems approach to EMS education to enhance consistency of instructional quality. Identifies limitations of EMS education and proposed solutions.
Date: 06/2000
Sponsoring organization: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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Shares a vision for an emergency medical services (EMS) education system that emphasizes the integration of EMS within the overall healthcare system. Discusses a systems approach to EMS education to enhance consistency of instructional quality. Identifies limitations of EMS education and proposed solutions.
Date: 06/2000
Sponsoring organization: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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Rural Rotations for Indiana Medical Students
A policy brief that provides information on rural clinical training opportunities for medical students in Indiana. Includes a county-level map showing clinical preceptor availability.
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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A policy brief that provides information on rural clinical training opportunities for medical students in Indiana. Includes a county-level map showing clinical preceptor availability.
Sponsoring organization: Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research and Policy
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Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education Program: Academic Year 2024-2025
Summarizes outcomes of grantee programs and residents who received Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) support during the 2024-2025 academic year. Also presents select multi-year outcomes for the program. Features statistics including the number of disadvantaged or rural residents, and percentages of THCGME clinical training site settings, with breakdowns by rural area and medically underserved communities.
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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Summarizes outcomes of grantee programs and residents who received Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education (THCGME) support during the 2024-2025 academic year. Also presents select multi-year outcomes for the program. Features statistics including the number of disadvantaged or rural residents, and percentages of THCGME clinical training site settings, with breakdowns by rural area and medically underserved communities.
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
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