News Stories

The Rural Medical Training Collaborative (formerly RTT Collaborative) invites you to participate in our annual rural photo contest.  Each year we hold a “bragging rights” competition for the shutter bugs associated with our organization to showcase their best photos that represent rural healthcare and training.  The deadline for submission is the end of April, but this year, for the first time ever,
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Each year we recognize residency programs with a proven track record of producing rural doctors. Any program with a 3 year rolling average of producing more rural doctors than the average rural program is welcome to apply for this special recognition.  Recognized programs are posted on our website and the list is sent to rurally interested students.  To qualify a program must have at least 50% or 3 of their graduates practice in a rural area as their initial practice location,
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Huge thanks to everyone who entered the RTT Collaborative’s 2023 Photo Contest!! There were so many lovely submissions, and we had a difficult time picking through the talent to pick the few winners. That being said, we’re extremely proud of these five selections who won. View them below, and keep an eye out for next year’s photo contest announcement this summer.
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This week we chatted with Ukiah Valley Family Medicine Residency‘s Associate Program Director Sara Martin, MD, MSc!

To understand our program, one needs to understand our community.  Nestled in the wide Ukiah valley in rural Northern California, we are surrounded by mountains.
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Teaching Health Neighborhood Graduate Professional Education (THN-GPE) is a new proposal for funding graduate training in rural and underserved urban communities and in a variety of specialties and disciplines. Its premise is that, “Funding community engaged health professions education in the place that needs the workforce and in the manner that graduates are expected to clinically practice will increase the rural and urban underserved workforce,
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The RTT Collaborative has published its Annual Report 2021 – 2022!
Thank you to everyone who has supported the RTTC and helped make it successful.

In this report, you will find…

•   Letter from the Executive Director on a year of change, and introducing a new leadership team

•   Statistics on the RTT’s Participating Programs

•   How to be become a Participating Program

•   Income + Expense Report

•   Highlights from September 2021– June 2022’s Newsletter(s)

•   View in your browser: Annual Report 2021 –
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The call for proposals for The RTT Collaborative Annual Meeting (in person), April 5-7, 2023,  at the Holiday Inn – Missoula Downtown in Missoula, MT, is now open through December 4. Visit our Annual Meeting page for more details: The RTT Collaborative Annual Meeting.” Spread the news to colleagues – faculty, staff, residents, and students.
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Teaching Health Neighborhood Graduate Professional Education (THN-GPE) is a new proposal for funding graduate training in rural and underserved urban communities and in a variety of specialties and disciplines. Its premise is that, “Funding community engaged health professions education in the place that needs the workforce and in the manner that graduates are expected to clinically practice will increase the rural and urban underserved workforce,
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The RTT Collaborative September 2022 Newsletter is Now Available!

Happy Autumn!! We have a busy newsletter for you this season, but make sure you check out our rural National Conference and Rural Residency Fest page for a post-meeting summary. Thank you to everyone who was able to attend this year, it was lovely seeing everyone after so long,
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The RTT Collaborative July 2022 Student Resource Guide is now available!

Happy summer!! We have a busy resource guide for you this year, but make sure you check out page four for summer event information.

Some newsletter highlights include: 

• A message from our Executive Director,
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