Oklahoma State Professor gad@okstate.edu
Rural Health Works and RUPRI http://www.rupri.org/people/orhw.html
Breeding Young Professionals and Healthier Rural Communities
The Oklahoma Physician Manpower Training Commission has placed physicians for over 25 years. OPMTC physicians have served for 3100 physician FTE years. The cost to the state was 100 million for GME and 18 million for scholarships and 11 million for administrative/other. These physicians have returned $3.6 billion dollars of direct and indirect impact on an investment of 130 million dollars with 2.7 billion in impact in rural areas. This is just the dollar contribution. Obviously some physicians would have made these choices anyway. The commission has estimated that 15% of the physicians that they have placed would not have been there without the state investment, this has meant 445 million dollars going to the communities most in need in the state for only 130 million in tax dollars. Their figure for the impact of each physician on the community including practice, direct jobs, and indirect on hospital and nursing home and pharmacy was $954,000 per physician per year. 25+ Years Oklahoma Physician Manpower Training Commission from Center for Health Policy Research, Center for Health Sciences, 2345 Southwest Blvd Tulsa, OK 74107
Research in Rural Medical Education