State by State Report on the Status of Rural Medical Education Across the

Country

This will be used in reports to associations, governments, and fellow

educators. We must know where we area so that we can track our progress.

Your Name ________________________ The State that you are rating

_________________________

Overall rating of the Total Rural Medical Education efforts within your

state at this time _____

1. Not a need or interest in our state

2. Not very active in rural medical education

3. Some activity

4. Some effective programs

5. Coordinated activities across some programs

6. Statewide plan coordinated from preprofessional to graduation and

beyond

NA ? cannot rate

Use the above to rate your state's efforts as of 5 years ago

________

Use the above to predict what your state will be doing in 5 years

________

Checklist of Rural Medical Education Programs Y=Yes N=No P=Planning

D=Discontinued

___ Elementary ? special efforts for rural or minority students in rural

areas in science/math

___ Middle School ? science fairs, career activities for rural students

___ High School Career Days at the medical school or at selected small

colleges

___ High School College Prep Efforts to help with SAT, college prep or

summer efforts

___ College ? Regular efforts to work with small college advisors

___ College advisors ? more formal work to include small college advisors

in admissions

___ College ? Special Career prep training for students from small

colleges on breaks/summer

___ Medical School Admissions ? some evidence that rural background

students get preference

___ Medical School Admissions ? major efforts to include rural background

students

___ Support Programs ? rural student interest group and activities

___ Integration of family practice, rural, international,

service-learning groups

___ RME programs just prior to the beginning of basic science years of

medical school

___ RME programs in the Preclinical Years ? during, or at the end of the

year

___ RME programs to transit students to the clinical years

___ RME programs to train third year students in med school (first

clinical year) required for all

___ RME programs to train third year students in med school (first

clinical year) elective track

___ RME programs to train students in the fourth year of medical school

required for all

___ RME programs to train students in the fourth year of medical school

elective track for some

___ Bridging RME program to train students in the fourth year and

continue into them into residency training

___ Specialized RME Program in the Graduate Year, nearly all months in

rural locations

___ Specialized RME Program in the Graduate Year, most years in rural

locations

___ Specialized RME Program in the Graduate Year, 2 or more months

required rural locations

___ RME program ? one month required

___ RME program ? elective rural rotation available

___ Specialized RME program where residents graduate and obtain

privileges to do procedures

___ Specialize linkages between rural communities and residency training

programs to facilitate recruitment - describe

___ Efforts to help graduates succeed in rural practice and to be

retained, problem cases mostly

___ Efforts to help graduate retention, preventive efforts or specific

efforts at graduation and continued

Special instructions

1. If you consider this program to be a model program, please circle it

and try to attach information on why this is a model.

2. Please note if you have data from the impact of your program, please

send a summary.

3. Please note if you have a special effort to include minorities in

these programs and have been successful in this

4. Please send a summary of the program including starting date, numbers

per year, relationships to programs before and after, directors of the

program - this can come later when you have the time, better to send the

survey in ASAP.

What do you consider the greatest challenge to graduating more and better

rural physicians and what is your suggestion to overcoming this challenge?