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Changes and Challenges in Rural Graduate Medical Education: The Family Medicine Spokane Rural Training Track Experience in Colville, Wash.
Author(s) -
Maudlin Robert K.,
Newkirk Gary R.,
Snook Michael D.,
Cooper Gloria
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
the journal of rural health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.439
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1748-0361
pISSN - 0890-765X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2000.tb00463.x
Subject(s) - accreditation , graduate medical education , training (meteorology) , medical education , rural community , threatened species , medicine , rural area , family medicine , nursing , political science , geography , sociology , socioeconomics , ecology , pathology , habitat , meteorology , biology
Rural community‐based graduate medical education programs in family practice are considered wise investments in America's future because they generate highly trained physicians who typically settle and practice in rural communities. In recent years, however, federal funding cutbacks and revised accreditation requirements have threatened the viability of these programs. In Colville, Wash., Mount Carmel Hospital has responded by agreeing to continue its collaboration with the Northeast Washington Medical Group to fully fund the cost of the Family Medicine Spokane Rural Training Track family practice residency program.