"The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is one of six medical schools in North America under the microscope as part of a U.S.-based study examining new models of medical education for the 21st century."
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Northern Ontario Medical Journal
October 2012
Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
January 2012
"This fact sheet shows that primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants are more likely to practice in rural areas than are non-primary care specialists, but are still more concentrated in urban areas."
Tags: Rural, Workforce Shortage
WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
January 2012
"The 14 RTTs in this study each graduated an average of two physicians per year. This rate of output is comparable to that of all 24 RTTs nationwide, which collectively matriculate about 45 to 50 new physicians annually."
Voice of America
December 21, 2011
"For the first time in modern history, more people are now living in cities than in rural areas. That includes doctors, leaving many small communities with no primary care physician. However, a new program at Kansas University may change that."
Tags: Rural
The Wall Street Journal
December 5, 2011
"A new report that offers the most comprehensive snapshot of New Yorkers' access to primary-care services to date finds that the availability and use of medical services varies strikingly within neighborhoods across the five boroughs, particularly with primary care."
Academic Medicine
November 2011
"The University of Missouri School of Medicine developed the Rural Track Pipeline Program (MU-RTPP) to increase the supply and retention of rural physicians statewide. The MU-RTPP features a preadmissions program for rural students (Rural Scholars), a Summer Community Program for rising second-year students, a six-month Rural Track Clerkship (RTC) Program for third-year students, and a Rural Track Elective Program for fourth-year students. The purpose of this study is to report the specialty choices and first practice locations of Rural Scholars, RTC-only participants, and Rural Track Clerkship Plus (RTC+) participants (students who participated in the RTC Program plus an additional MU-RTPP component)."
Tags: Pipeline
stltoday.com
October 20, 2011
"Most of the country's doctors don't want to be country doctors. Only 3 percent of medical school students say they want to practice in rural areas, according to research from the University of Missouri-Columbia."
Tags: Workforce Shortage
MSNBC
July 31, 2011
A Kansas college hopes young doctors will be more willing to practice in small towns if they go to a medical school in a rural area. The University of Kansas will have what it says is the smallest four-year medical education site in the country when eight students begin taking classes on Monday on a satellite campus in Salina, Kansas. The move is in response to a shortage of rural doctors in the United States.
American Medical Association
April 1, 2011
"At a November 2010 summit, the American Medical Association (AMA) Center for Transforming Medical Education and the AMA Advocacy Resource Center, in collaboration with leaders from GME programs, state medical societies and national medical organizations, discussed state-based GME funding options. The summit’s goal was to develop successful strategies that state and regional stakeholders could embrace for political action to expand GME funding to meet state and regional medical workforce needs."
