Comments on: Rural Medicine – serving more, with less, over huge distances http://www.worh.org/ruraltech/rural-medicine-serving-more-with-less-over-huge-distances/174 No, it's not an oxymoron. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:17:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John http://www.worh.org/ruraltech/rural-medicine-serving-more-with-less-over-huge-distances/174/comment-page-1#comment-55 John Thu, 28 May 2009 03:23:20 +0000 http://www.worh.org/ruraltech/rural-medicine-serving-more-with-less-over-huge-distances/174#comment-55 Excellent program you all have in Iowa, Mike. As you point out, we have to start thinking of long-term system improvements to address the workforce issue. And beyond the system needs, we're seeing that the opportunity to point one's medical education in a direction seems to be very satisfying for the students. There's been a tremendous response from medical students in the <a href="http://www.med.wisc.edu/education/md/warm/home/187" rel="nofollow">Wisconsin Academy of Rural Medicine</a> (WARM), here at the University of Wisconsin's School of Medicine and Public Health. It's a passionate bunch of future rural docs. Along with increasing the supply of physicians, we must also look at alternate service-delivery models - telemedicine, non-physician primary care providers and even utilizing advanced EMS providers for house calls. There's just no getting around these data trends - we must adjust our models to emerging realities. Thanks for the comment! Excellent program you all have in Iowa, Mike. As you point out, we have to start thinking of long-term system improvements to address the workforce issue.

And beyond the system needs, we’re seeing that the opportunity to point one’s medical education in a direction seems to be very satisfying for the students. There’s been a tremendous response from medical students in the Wisconsin Academy of Rural Medicine (WARM), here at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health. It’s a passionate bunch of future rural docs.

Along with increasing the supply of physicians, we must also look at alternate service-delivery models – telemedicine, non-physician primary care providers and even utilizing advanced EMS providers for house calls. There’s just no getting around these data trends – we must adjust our models to emerging realities.

Thanks for the comment!

]]> By: Mike Templeton http://www.worh.org/ruraltech/rural-medicine-serving-more-with-less-over-huge-distances/174/comment-page-1#comment-54 Mike Templeton Wed, 27 May 2009 14:23:20 +0000 http://www.worh.org/ruraltech/rural-medicine-serving-more-with-less-over-huge-distances/174#comment-54 This situation is exactly the reason we need more options for students like Des Moines University's <a href="http://www.dmu.edu/com/do/strengths/ripe/" rel="nofollow">Rural Iowa Provider Education</a> (RIPE) program. DMU has made an on-going commitment to annually provide the equivalent of six full tuition scholarships to students enrolled in the Rural Medicine Educational Pathway, encouraging them to be part of the solution to rural physician shortage in primary care and other specialties. These kinds of programs help students work through the tuition debt load from medical school and make a difference in rural communities in need. This situation is exactly the reason we need more options for students like Des Moines University’s Rural Iowa Provider Education (RIPE) program. DMU has made an on-going commitment to annually provide the equivalent of six full tuition scholarships to students enrolled in the Rural Medicine Educational Pathway, encouraging them to be part of the solution to rural physician shortage in primary care and other specialties.

These kinds of programs help students work through the tuition debt load from medical school and make a difference in rural communities in need.

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