Steps to a Rural Graduate Program

 

Support from a program, institution, community, hospital

Funding

Sources of Funding for Rural GME

Funding and Recruitment go togethert

Choices for training sites/Direction of the program

Recruitment of students to take graduate positions

Work with schools with rural tracks, students with international interest, students with procedural interest, regional meetings, help with rural presentation at the AAFP Student-Resident Meeting in KC each year, see transitions below also for recruitment to RTTs

Transitions and Troubleshooting, Developing Programs, esp RTTs

Acceptance of FP Residents in the Rural Community Practice, legal and administrative and teaching issues

Getting Residents to Accept  Rural Rotations    

Directing Rural Programs - the big picture