Strategies for Rural Medical Educators

Health professionals education represents one of the South's major successes….. despite increases in the overall supply ….. serious problems of distribution of professinoals to geographic, subspecialty, and public service areas of need continue, except for those situations in which carefully coordinated strategies have been directed to specific problems Southern Regional Education Board 1983

Multilevel, Continuous, Overlapping or Statewide (or Provincewide) Approaches

Evaluating State Efforts in Rural Medical Education

For a step by step approach to obtain more rural physicians, try this page for various interventions from birth to death

The Total Rural Program

Dimensions in Rural Medicine

Training Recommendations for Preventing Leaks in the Pipeline

New Schools, Dispersed Education, Student Groups, Procedures and Other Interventions That Graduate More Rural Docs

Ten Steps to Rural Practice

Why Do Shortages Areas Work For Training?

What Are Bypassing or Bridging Techniques?

AAMC Data on Rural-Interested Seniors from 1995 GQ Survey

Facilitating Recruitment to Underserved Areas

Coordination of the pipeline  The TEAM Concept

Working with the state

Hub and spoke outreach

Rural economic development

Reverse centralization

Pre-professional

Preparation of the "Right" students

Leadership in academic centers

Directing rural programs

Tools for Community Work