“Celebrating Complexity in the Emerging Diversity of Rural Medical Education”
April 11-13 – Spokane, Washington
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Powerpoint Presentations
Pre-conference – Wednesday PM, April 11
Rural Health Professions Education Research Design and Dissemination Studio
- DDS Introduction 4-11-2018
- “Evaluating Rural-Urban Underserved Medical School Programs,” Sharon Casapulla (Athens, Ohio)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
- “Measuring the Commitment of Health Professions Schools to Rural Primary Care,” Davis Patterson (Seattle, WA)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
Welcome Dinner, Wednesday PM, April 11
Plenary #1: “Lighting the Fires of Leadership, Education and Advocacy for Rural Practice”
- Ted Epperly, President and CEO, Family Medicine Residency of Idaho and RTT Collaborative Board member (Boise, ID)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
Thursday, April 12
Plenary#2: “The Continuum of Rural Medical Education”
- Robert Maudlin, Freddy Chen, John McCarthy (Spokane and Seattle, WA)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
Thursday AM Workshops, April 12
Emerging Diversity: A Minorities Pipeline
- Antonio J. Gardner, Assistant Professor of Health Promotion, Mississippi State University (representing Alabama and Mississippi)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
Teaching Gender Affirming Care in Rural Communities: A Critical Conversation
- Jaime Bowman, Program Director, Family Medicine Residency Spokane (Washington)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
- Gender Handout
The Rural Osteopathic Medical Education Program: Training for students for life and practice in rural and underserved communities
- John Gibson, Assistant Dean, and Stacy Abraham, Research Assistant Director, ROME, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (Texas)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
Oregon FIRST: Family Medicine Integrated Rural Student Training
- Dwight Smith, and Kristi Coleman, Cascades East Family Medicine Residency (Oregon)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
Augmenting Rural Training through Longitudinal Continuity Clinics
- Allen Last, Program Director, Fox Valley Family Medicine Residency and Zachary Baeseman, Associate Medical Director, ThedaCare Physicians – Waupaca (Wisconsin)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
How to Recruit the First Residents to a new RTT
- Rob Epstein, Site Director; Laura Diamond, Core Faculty; Jon Motts, R1; Kelsey Sholund, R1 at North Olympic Healthcare Network/Swedish Cherry Hill Family Medicine Residency, Port Angeles RTT (Washington)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
Build Your Pipeline: integrating a residency, an interprofessional rural campus and medical student tracks
- Kristi Coleman, Assistant Director, Medical Student Education, and Joyce Hollander-Rodriguez, Program Director and Regional Associate Dean, OHSU-Cascades East Family Medicine Residency (Oregon)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
Rural Residency Coordinator Track
No downloads, for further information contact: Kyle West, Program Coordinator, Rural Program, Central Washington Family Medicine Residency Program, Washington
- Professional Development and Professionalism in the Coordinator Role
- Coordinating Outreach and Engagements of Residents in the Community
- New Program Development: Panel Discussion
Thursday PM
Plenary#3: “Speaking Up for Rural Medical Education”
- Hope Wittenberg,
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
Thursday PM Workshops, April 12
National Institute for Program Director Development (NIPDD) Rural Fellows
- Aline Hansen-Guzman,Site Director, Fort Morgan RTT (Colorado) and Leandrita Flores Ortega, Site Director/Program Director in Development, Alamogordo RTT (New Mexico), this year’s RTT Collaborative NIPDD scholarship recipients share their academic projects.
- Hansen-Guzman – Faculty Needs Assessment
- Ortega – Patient Handout: High Intensity Interval Training
Teaching Leadership Skills to Future Rural Physicians: The TRUST Experience
- David Evans, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Jay Erickson, Regional Dean for Montana,Toby Keys, Teaching Associate, University of Washington School of Medicine , and Lisa Benzel and Justin Thompson, students (Washington and Montana)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
Helping Residents Who are in Difficulty and have Challenges in Smaller and Rural Programs – Dynamics, Differences, Struggles and Solutions
- Robert Gobbo, Program Director, Providence Hood River Family Medicine Residency; Stu Hannah, Program Director, Baraboo RTT; Gary Newkirk, Program Director, Providence Spokane and the Colville Rural Training Program (Oregon, Wisconsin, Washington)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
- Presentation Notes (pdf)
- HR CCC Work Plan terminology 2017
A Consortium on a Mission: Together, Create the Best Regional Physician Workforce in the Country
- Kara Traxler, Director Rural GME Development, Wisconsin Collaborative for Rural GME; Lisa Dodson, Campus Dean, Medical College of Wisconsin – Central Wisconsin Campus; Allen Last, Program Director, Fox Valley Family Medicine Residency; and Kevin O’Connell, Director of Medical Education, Aspirus (Wisconsin)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
Simple, Satisfying Self-Sufficiency- We Can Make This Work Financially
- David Smith, Program Director, North Colorado Family Medicine; David Reed, Site Director, Wray RTT; Jeff Bacon, Site Director, Sterling RTT (Colorado); Asa Ware, NCFM Faculty Liaison
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
A University and AHEC Partnership: Creating lasting rural training as part of an urban-based University program
- Melody Jordahl-Iafrato, Program Director, and Jerome Koleski, Rural Health Coordinator, University of Arizona College of Medicine at South Campus FMR (Arizona)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
Burnout Among Rural Family Physicians
- Amy Hogue, Associate Program Director, and Mark Huntingdon, Program Director, Sioux Falls Family Medicine Residency Program and Pierre RTT, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine (South Dakota)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
Interprofessional Care: Moving from Silos to Synergy
- David Rebedew, Core Faculty, and Lori Rodefeld, Medical Education Coach/Supervisor, Monroe Clinic Rural Family Medicine Residency (Wisconsin)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
New Program Exploration
- RTT Collaborative Consultants: Randall Longenecker, Executive Director, and David Schmitz, Associate Director, The RTT Collaborative (Ohio and North Dakota)
- Presentation Slides (pdf)
- Community Engage Residency Education for Rural Places (PDF Package/Tool)
Friday AM Conference on the Move, April 13
Trip to Colville, WA, and the nation’s first RTT
- Michael Snook, Founding Site Director
- History of the Colville RTT
Visit to the Spokane Teaching Health Clinic on the Washington State University Spokane campus