A Roadmap to Rural Residency Program Development

Innovation in rural family medicine training: the Mountain Area Health Education Center's rural-track residency program.

Leadership for All: An Internal Medicine Residency Leadership Development Program.

BACKGROUND Developing effective leadership skills in physicians is critical for safe patient care. Few residency-based models of leadership training exist. OBJECTIVE We evaluated residents' readiness to engage in leadership training, feasibility of implementing training for all residents, and residents' acceptance of training. METHODS In its fourth year, the Leadership Development Program (...

The Resident Academic Project Program: A Structured Approach to Inspiring Academic Development During Residency Training.

We report the successful implementation of structured resident academic projects in our Department of Anesthesiology at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Beginning with the graduating class of 2010, we adopted an expectation that each resident complete a project that results in a manuscript of publishable quality. Defining a clear timeline for all steps in the project and providing researc...

Establishment of a General Medicine Residency Training Program in Rural West Africa

Ghana, a developing country in West Africa, has major medical burdens in taking care of a large population with limited resources. Its three medical schools produce more than 200 graduates per year, but most emigrate to developed lands after training. Ghana is working to educate and retain locally trained physicians, but it is difficult to get them to work in rural settings where the need is gr...

Influencing residency choice and practice location through a longitudinal rural pipeline program.

PURPOSE 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 R...