We hope that you enjoy your stay. We hope that you will meet some old and new friends. Please take advantage of this opportunity to teach your rural faculty colleagues as well as take home some valuable information for your own programs. All of the sessions will be held at the LSU Campus. Transportation is available from the hotel to the campus before and after the sessions. The workshop involves a series of presentations followed by small group discussions. These involve a mix of experienced and new faculty involved in similar types of programs and projects. The purpose of the rural workshops:

1. To develop new and existing rural programs and faculty

2. To network with other rural faculty and leaders.

3. To define some basic elements of rural medical education

4. To discuss the future of rural medical education

12:00 PM Bus Leaves front of Sheraton for LSU Medical Education Building, 1901 Perdido, Seminar Room 10

12:30 PM Lunch for Speakers and All Participants

1:00 PM David Euans: Welcome to New Orleans

Robert Bowman: Introductions and Overview

Robert Boyer: Slaying the Dragons

2:00 PM Rural Experiences

Sandy Kammermann - USC Rural Primary Care Ed. Project   John A. Martin Primary Care Center, Winnsboro, SC

Dean Havron - Family Practice in a Small Town   Okemos, MI

Paul James - Community Academic Practice Sites

SUNY Buffalo Office of Rural Health, Buffalo, NY

4:30 PM Discussion of RRC Requirements - Paul James and Joe Ferguson

5:15 PM Reception for Participants

6:00 PM Bus Leaves LSU for Sheraton

7:30 AM Bus Leaves Sheraton for LSU

8:00 AM Breakfast Discussion Groups:

Advising Students and Residents - David Acosta

Rural Practice Management Curricula - James Spindler

Working with CHCs - Stephen Earls and Joe Ferguson

9:00 AM Rural Tracks

Todd Swanson - Rural Residency Training W. Central Wisc       Family Medicine Clinic, Eau Claire, WI 

David Smith - St. Francis Mayo RTT     La Crosse, WI

Joe R. Ferguson - Rural Training Tracks      North Colorado Family Medicine, Greeley, CO

Joe Florence - East Kentucky FPR      Hazard, KY

12:00 PM Lunch Discussion Groups:

Developing Procedural Training - Bob Bowman

Developing Preceptors - Joe Florence

Other Group Discussion

1:00 PM Five Years of a Rural Fellowship, David Acosta, M.D.   Tacoma Family Medicine, Tacoma, WA

1:30 PM Continuous Programs

Ron McCord, M.D. - Rural Medical Education Program   University of Illinois Rockford, Rockford, IL

Bob Bowman, M.D. - Community Connections: Linking the Pieces   UNMC Family Medicine, Omaha, NE

3:00 PM Summation of Workshop and Business Meeting

5:30 PM Bus Leaves LSU for Sheraton