Coordinating rural divisions:The workforce window

Coordinating rural divisions: the workforce window.

Divisions of General Practice have been established to alleviate the professional isolation which general practitioners face by being excluded from involvement in other parts of the health care system. Divisions facilitate the development of local communication networks and cooperative activities which improve the integration of general practice with other elements of the health system. Coordin...

The Rural Emergency Physician Workforce

One of the primary challenges of rural emergency medicine (EM) is assembling an appropriate workforce to meet the needs of individual communities. Because rural emergency departments (EDs) vary greatly in patient volume, geographic isolation and acuity, finding the best mix of ED clinicians and sub-specialists for the individual site can be difficult. This task requires understanding current st...

Preventing rural workforce by design.

With 2.7 trillion dollars in annual health spending, America has no excuse for designs that have failed for decades with regard to rural health workforce development. Rural workforce failure can best be understood as the inevitable result of failure by design. Designs for revenue are insufficient to support the rural clinician workforce that would resolve deficits. The designs of health profess...

Can training reduce the rural workforce shortage?

The primary care physician workforce in Massachusetts: implications for the workforce in rural, small town America.

CONTEXT Small towns across the United States struggle to maintain an adequate primary care workforce. PURPOSE To examine factors contributing to physician satisfaction and retention in largely rural areas in Massachusetts, a state with rural pockets and small towns. METHODS A survey mailed in 2004-2005 to primary care physicians, practicing in areas designated by the state as rural, queried...