Turquoise Trail – The Pathway to Vibrant Rural Healthcare Collaboration

The 2025 RMTC Annual Meeting

Wednesday through Friday, April 9-11, 2025

Sante Fe Community Convention Center – 201 W. Marcy St. Santa Fe, NM

Lodging Information:

Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza

Booking Link: https://group.hilton.com/uhif87

Or call 800.445.8667 and reference RMTC 2025

Drury Hotels

Booking Link: https://www.druryhotels.com/bookandstay/newreservation/?groupno=10128357

Or call 800.325.0720 and reference group number 10128357

Call for Presentations

The Rural Medical Training Collaborative (formerly the RTT Collaborative) is completing its twelfth year as a nationwide cooperative of rural training programs. We have undergone a name change and broadened our mission and are looking forward to the continued partnership with amazing rural healthcare educators. The RMTC is happy to announce that the 2025 Annual Meeting will be hosted by the NMPCTC in the beautiful community of Santa Fe, NM. We reference Turquoise Trail to represent the vibrant pathway that rural medicine has followed to bring collaboration and innovation to rural communities. As New Mexicans value sharing the beauty of unique cultures and collaborating with each other, so does rural healthcare value collaboration amongst providers and sharing the uniqueness and beauty of each rural community.

Located at the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Sante Fe is known as the cultural capital of the American southwest. We invite you to join us as we explore the pathways to creating and sustaining vibrant healthcare collaboration in rural communities.

Join other rural medical educators from rural training programs around the nation, and leave with the knowledge to:

Understand different models of healthcare education uniquely suited for rural environments
Design or expand a rural training program to serve the broad needs of a community
Adapt and implement novel ideas for your own program design and structure
Better prepare your program to meet the requirements of accreditation and community needs
Implement at least one innovative strategy for teaching learners to provide a broad scope of care
Become part of a growing national network of programs and people training health professionals, throughout the continuum of education

Proposal formats:

Poster (In-person presentation option, size TBD; electronic version must be PPT format; Submission due Jan 31)
Lecture-Discussion (25 min)
Workshop (55 min)
Themed (or paired) Workshop (2 hours)

Submission Deadline for in-person presentations: Friday, December 6, 2024, 11:59 pm

We are particularly interested in presentations that highlight the innovation and collaboration that exists within rural healthcare training and practice. Broad themes include:

Innovations in training and practice
Culturally and community informed training and practice
Recruitment to rural practice
- Innovative approaches to recruitment of learners and practitioners
- Embracing the beauty of rural places
Strength of practicing rural medicine
- Care Coordination
- Communications
- Relationships
Developing a broad spectrum of skills in rural healthcare
- Models of primary care delivery
- Team based care
- Rural Medicine Generalists
Presentations by and for program coordinators/administrators and students/residents are encouraged.

General Instructions:

There are four presentation formats – in-person or electronic poster, 25-minute lecture-discussion, 55-minute workshop, and 2-hour themed workshop. The program committee reserves the prerogative to allocate more, or less, time as appropriate.
Complete the presentation application using this Qualtrics link.
Lead presenters are limited to a total of two (2) submissions, but generally no more than one (1) breakout presentation will be accepted, to provide additional presentation opportunities for other attendees.
Submit the completed poster proposal form through our poster Qualtrics link here by January 31, 2025.
Acknowledgment of receipt of submissions will be e-mailed within 5 business days of your submission; notification of acceptance will be sent electronically to the primary presenter by December 20, 2024.
ALL PRESENTERS MUST PAY THE REGISTRATION FEE. In addition, no honoraria or travel expense reimbursement can be provided by the Collaborative to any presenter submitting through the call for presentations. (Poster presenters only need to register if they intend to attend the conference in-person)
Presenters may not use any conference presentation to market products or services.
Every presenter, lead and secondary, will be required to declare any potential financial conflict of interest, i.e. any association or role that could, as a direct result of this presentation, cause a financial benefit to the presenter or their family.

Questions? Contact Jess Tripp at jessica.tripp@mso.umt.edu.

Poster Presentations from 2024 Annual Meeting:

A.-Swenson.pptx (4.14 MB pptx)

M.-Chhatpar.pptx (275.79 KB pptx)

S.-Murphy.pptx (4.72 MB pptx)

W.-Swenson-PioneeringCancerCare.pdf (772.26 KB pdf)

B.-Babu-HPV.pdf (2.13 MB pdf)

B.-Lemack.pptx (1.50 MB pptx)

E.-Chavez.pdf (3.96 MB pdf)

A.-Namba-Ind-Learning.pptx (251.38 KB pptx)

A.-Namba-BHCurriculum.pptx (114.86 KB pptx)

B.-Pilson.pdf (1.46 MB pdf)

D.-Lavender.pptx (3.78 MB pptx)

Speaker Presentations from 2024 Annual Meeting:

Blazing-a-Trail-in-the-Wilderness-Wyomings-First-Rural-Training-Track.pdf (2.35 MB pdf)

Bridging-the-Gap-for-Rural-Medical-Education-through-Creative-Partnerships.pdf (514.82 KB pdf)

Bridging-the-Gaps_-How-North-Colorado-Family-Medicine-Collaborates-Between-Core-and-Rural-Programs-to-Strengthen-All.pdf (549.44 KB pdf)

Building-From-the-Floor-Up_-Introducing-a-Residency-Teaching-Service-into-an-Existing-Rural-Hospitalist-Group-Model.pdf (1.77 MB pdf)

Creating-a-Coordinator-Retention-Revolution.pdf (1.26 MB pdf)

Creative-Solutions-to-Providing-Housing-for-Rural-Residency-Program.pdf (1.17 MB pdf)

Direct-Primary-Care_-A-Model-That-Works-for-the-Rural-and-Underserved.pdf (461.92 KB pdf)

Diversity-and-Collaboration-of-Ohios-Medical-Schools-on-Rural-Programming_-The-Rural-Physician-Training-Pathway-RPTP-Model.pdf (2.30 MB pdf)

Enhancing-Medical-Residency-and-Fellowship_-The-Case-for-Rural-Rotations.pdf (2.19 MB pdf)

Faculty-Time-and-CBME-Its-Possible.pdf (1.17 MB pdf)

Ideas-for-Diversity-Training-in-Medicine-and-its-Importance-in-Rural-Health.pdf (1.61 MB pdf)

Interview-and-Match-Outcomes-Over-Time_-Learnings-from-A-Large-Regional-Network.pdf (1.23 MB pdf)

Management-of-Controlled-Medications-in-an-Outpatient-Primary-Care-Practice.pdf (1.98 MB pdf)

Medicare-GME-Funding-for-Rural-Residencies-Hot-Issues-with-Rule-Changes-and-Hospital-Reclassifications.pdf (1.98 MB pdf)

Meeting-the-Needs-of-Washingtonians_-Training-Residents-in-Rural-Washington-through-Program-Development-and-Rural-Rotations.pdf (2.07 MB pdf)

One-Year-Later-Lessons-Learned-from-Starting-a-Family-Medicine-Residency-Program-in-a-Rural-CAH.pdf (1.32 MB pdf)

Out-of-Site-Out-of-Mind_-The-Value-of-Peer-Site-Visits.pdf (2.08 MB pdf)

Pathways-to-Peaks_-Optional-Tracks-to-Climb-to-Success.pdf (1,019.60 KB pdf)

Primary-Care-Pathway-Program_-Bridging-the-Gaps-to-Reach-Higher-Peaks.pdf (2.72 MB pdf)

Recruitment-of-Residents-to-Rural-Programs_-Early-Outcomes-of-RRPF-Cohort-1.pdf (2.53 MB pdf)

Rural-Longitudinal-Curriculum-in-Western-North-Carolina_-A-15-Year-Perspective.pdf (1.19 MB pdf)

Rural-Residency-Roots-Longitudinal-Medical-Student-Rotations.pdf (253.79 KB pdf)

Seeding-Hope_-Cultivating-Rural-Oncology-Training-for-Rural-and-Community-Care.pdf (2.25 MB pdf)

So-Your-Rural-Clinic-is-GME-Naive_.pdf (1.55 MB pdf)

Storytelling-and-Advocacy_-Telling-our-Rural-Stories.pdf (5.56 MB pdf)

The-Emerging-Landscape-of-Rural-Residency-Training_-Defining-Program-Types-and-Assessing-Their-Value.pdf (1.08 MB pdf)

Using-Simulation-to-Train-Rural-Medical-Students-and-Residents-1.pdf (1.53 MB pdf)

You-Wear-Many-Hats-Youre-Not-Just-a-Doctor_-A-Qualitative-Study-of-Unique-Training-Needs-for-Rural-Family-Medicine-Practice.pdf (811.34 KB pdf)

The-Future-of-Residency-Trainingthe-Future-of-Family-Medicine.pdf (3.92 MB pdf)

For downloads from previous meetings, including those from 2023, click the button below.

Past Meetings