Expanded Eligibility Allows More Rural Clinicians to Qualify for Loan Repayment Date: Thursday, January 13, 2022Time: 11:00am Pacific, 12:00pm Mountain, 1:00pm Central, 2:00pm EasternDuration: approximately 60 minutes Featured Speakers Tom Morris, Associate Administrator for Rural Health, Health Resources and Services AdministrationMike Shimmens, Executive Director, 3RNETHRSA BHW Speaker TBD Are you a rural clinician that needs… Continue reading UPCOMING WEBINAR OF INTEREST
A Pre-Med Student Discusses her Christmas Project
I am Haley Sykes, a junior at The University of Virginia’s College at Wise. I am a Cell and Molecular Biology major with hopes of becoming a doctor one day. My twin sister, Kaley, also wants to become a doctor. This year we have had the wonderful opportunity to volunteer with the Graduate Medical Education… Continue reading A Pre-Med Student Discusses her Christmas Project
Videos from Head for the Hills 2021
Now a pleasant memory, Head for the Hills 2021 provided several resources for best practice: https://videopress.com/v/6fXrO8rJ?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata Drs. Paul Jett and Joseph Frye discuss opioid prescription guidelines telehealth-rural-health-1Download Audio quality prevented uploading a full video, but here are the slides from Dr. Tina Gustin's presentation on Telehealth. Feel free to contact her for further information. https://videopress.com/v/5ZFMkYM4?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata… Continue reading Videos from Head for the Hills 2021
Nutrition and Medicine
The Graduate Medical Education Consortium is delighted to partner with the Feeding Southwest Virginia Mobile Market. GMEC has a grant from the National Institute for Food and Agriculture to work with nutrition needs in fixed income communities. The presence of the truck is part of these outreach efforts. Doctors often tell patients to make better… Continue reading Nutrition and Medicine
Rural GME grants available
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) funded Rural Residency Planning and Development Program (RRPD) grantees are developing new rural residency programs or Rural Training Tracks (RTT) in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or Psychiatry. For more information visit https://www.ruralgme.org/
Rural Hub Offers Information on GME
Interested in COVID-specific national trends in rural graduate medical education? The Rural Hub Information Network has its August 2021 assessment out. Click here to view: https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/project-examples/topics/graduate-medical-education
Head For the Hills Update
Due to the rise of COVID cases following the Delta Variant and in light of vaccine rates not yet sufficient to create a safe environment for face to face interaction among our very needed medical professionals, the conference has moved online. Deadline for registration is October. Please register by clicking the link below. PLEASE NOTE… Continue reading Head For the Hills Update
Rural Population on the Decline
Between 2000 and 2010, the nonmetropolitan areas in the US gained more than 1 million residents, but in the last decade, the population fell by 260,000 residents. The decrease from 2010 to 2020 was slight — about half a percentage point, but what is interesting about this change is that it was fueled by increased… Continue reading Rural Population on the Decline
Declining Volunteers in EmeRgency SErvices Threaten Rural Community Health
In rural America, it’s increasingly difficult for ambulance services to respond to emergencies. One factor is that emergency medical services are struggling to find young volunteers to replace retiring EMTs. Another is a growing financial crisis among rural volunteer EMS agencies: A third of them are at risk because they can’t cover their operating costs.… Continue reading Declining Volunteers in EmeRgency SErvices Threaten Rural Community Health
Digital Navigators: A Telehealth Game Changer
With the introduction and abrupt shift to telehealth over the past year, the technology required to support telehealth visits is only the first hurdle that needs to be overcome. The user interaction and experience is perhaps the more important hurdle that we must turn our attention to. Over 4 million rural homes have no access… Continue reading Digital Navigators: A Telehealth Game Changer
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