Tools
AHA Issues: Health Care Workforce
Database
Comprised of a Commission on Workforce, which focuses on developments and resources to deal with the present health care workforce shortage.
Career Voyages
Web site
A collaboration between the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Education designed to provide information on high growth, in-demand occupations along with the skills and education needed to attain those jobs.
Community HealthCorps
Web site
Promotes health care for America's underserved. Works to increase access to health care, provide health education, support use of health care services, and recruit and develop volunteers to support community health centers.
Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS)
Database
Transmits residency applications, letters of recommendation, Dean's Letters/MSPE, transcripts, and other supporting credentials from applicants and medical schools to Fellowship, Osteopathic Internship and Residency programs using the Internet.
FindAResident
Database
Helps in locating residency and fellowship positions; puts residents in direct contact with the programs looking to fill these positions; supplements the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS); and is an effective resource when changing specialty, location or residency program.
FREIDA Online
Database
Stands for Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database. Contains over 7800 medical education programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, as well as over 200 combined specialty programs. Allows searching for specialty and subspecialty programs, training institutions, medical schools, aggregate training statistics by specialty, and career plans of recent graduates.
Guidelines for Medically Underserved Area and Population Designation
Web site
Guidelines for use in applying the established Criteria for Designation of Medically Underserved Areas (MUAs) and Populations (MUPs). Describes three methods for designation.
Health Care Shortage Designations
Web site
Contains information about health care shortage designations such as Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and Medically Underserved Areas and Populations (MUAs/MUPs).
Medically Underserved Area/Medically Underserved Population (MUA/MUP) Database
Database
Allows searching by state, county, or ID number. Includes designation status and date.
Midwest Center for Health Workforce Studies
Web site
Conducts research on the health workforce to improve health workforce policy and planning at the state, Midwest regional and national level, which leads to increased access to care for underserved populations.
National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
Database
Provides detailed state-by-state data on supply, demand, distribution, education and use of health personnel. Collects, analyzes and disseminates health workforce information and facilitates national, state and local workforce planning efforts. Monitors trends to assure that all segments of society have access to quality health care professionals providing appropriate health care services in all geographic areas.
National Clearinghouse on the Direct Line Workforce
Web site
Consists of a national on-line library for people in search of solutions to the direct-care staffing crisis in long-term care. Includes government and research reports, news, issue briefs, fact sheets, and other information on topics such as recruitment, career advancement supervision, workplace culture, and caregiving practices.
NHSC Job Opportunities
Database
Listing of health professional job opportunities available serving underserved populations. Job listings are not exclusive to NHSC Scholars and those interested in the NHSC Loan Repayment Program.
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce
Web site
Information and resources to help the public health workforce find and use information effectively. Includes funding sources, data and statistics, career resources and more. Provided by a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations and health sciences libraries.
Rural Health Career Center
Database
Jobs are searchable by location, job title or industry segment. Resumes and jobs may be posted, are self-contained, and are instantly displayed.
Rural Health Research: Workforce
Web site
Provides summaries of current and completed rural health research projects and related publications addressing the topic of health care workforce, produced by the Office of Rural Health Policy's funded rural health research centers.
Rural Hospital Education Gateway
Web site
A one-stop shop for rural hospitals to access distance and web-based educational resources on topics including community engagement, hospital finance, management and leadership, performance improvement, workforce and quality.
State Health Workforce Profiles
Web site
Detailed state-by-state data on supply, demand, distribution, education and use of health personnel.
WWAMI Center for Health Workforce Studies Regional Information Center
Web site
Provides access to health workforce information for Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho. Content is available by state and by profession.
Regulations, Forms & Other Useful Documents
2005 Physician Supply and Distribution in Rural Areas of the United States (full report)
Author(s): Meredith A. Fordyce, Frederick M. Chen, Mark P. Doescher, L. Gary Hart
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Describes the 2005 supply and distribution
of physicians with particular emphasis on
generalists in rural areas.
Date: 11 / 2007
2007 State Physician Workforce Data Book
Sponsoring organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
Examines the active physician supply in each state, current medical school enrollment, physicians in graduate medical education programs, and in-state retention rates. Includes data charts and tables for all 50 states, in addition to national averages.
Date: 11 / 2007
Action Plan for Behavioral Health Workforce Development
Author(s): Annapolis Coalition on the Behavioral Health Workforce
Sponsoring organization: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Describes a broad, national workforce development plan for the behavioral health workforce. Covers workforce issues relevant to persons with
mental health conditions, substance abuse or substance use disorders, and co-occurring mental and addictive conditions. Includes a chapter focused on rural behavioral health workforce issues.
Date: 2007
Allied Health Job Vacancy Tracking Report
Author(s): Erin Fraher, Phillip Summers, Katie Gaul, Stephen Rutledge
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (Cecil G. Sheps Center)
Quantifies workforce demand for selected allied health professions in North Carolina, tracks job vacancy advertisements in print and online sources, summarizes vacancy advertisements by
profession, region, and employer type, and describes the types of sign-on bonuses offered by employers.
Date: 04 / 2007
An Aging U.S. Population and the Health Care Workforce: Factors Affecting the Need for Geriatric Care Workers
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Identifies and critiques major long-term care projection models related to the demand for care of the elderly in three major settings: nursing homes, residential care, and home care.
Date: 02 / 2006
Are Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses a Solution to Rural Mental Health Workforce Shortages?
Author(s): David Hartley, Valerie Hart, Nancy Hanrahan, Stephenie Loux
Sponsoring organization: Maine Rural Health Research Center
Discusses the role advanced practice psychiatric nurses (APPNs) could play in providing mental health services to rural areas. Includes information on prescription authority and collaboration requirements for each state, as well as state distribution of APPNs.
Date: 04 / 2004
Around the Country: Special Series: Technical Assistance Centers: National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network (3RNet)
Author(s): Hope Hanson
Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
Fourth in a series of articles on rural health technical assistance resources around the country funded by the federal Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP). Highlights the National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network (3RNet).
Journal citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 08 / 2006
Changes in the Rural Registered Nurse Workforce from 1980 to 2004 (Final Report)
Author(s): Susan M. Skillman, Lorella Palazzo, L. Gary Hart, Patricia Butterfield
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Describes changes in rural and urban Registered Nurse demographics, education, and employment characteristics over time.
Date: 10 / 2007
Community Colleges: Critical Training
Author(s): Thomas D. Rowley
Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
Discusses the role community colleges play in health care workforce training across the nation.
Journal citation: Rural Monitor Volume 11 Issue 3
Date: 01 / 2005
Community Health Aide Program: Overview 2007
Provides a detailed overview of Community Health Aide Program (CHAP) including the history, current practice, training, field supervision, and quality assurance of this unique program that facilitates health care services in Alaska's remote villages.
Date: 03 / 2007
Contribution of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants to Generalist Care in Washington State
Author(s): Eric H. Larson, Lorella Palazzo, Bobbi Berkowitz, Michael J. Pirani, L. Gary Hart
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Describes the contribution to generalist care made by nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) in Washington State. Includes data on NP and PA contributions in rural areas.
Journal citation: Health Services Research Volume 38 Issue 4 Pages: 1033-1050
Date: 08 / 2003
Critical Care Workforce: A Study of the Supply and Demand for Critical Care Physicians
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Examines the adequacy of the critical care workforce. Working with the American College of Chest Physicians, HRSA and its consultants updated the physician workforce models to include critical care physicians.
Date: 2006
Effects of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 on Health Workforce Development in the States
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
Describes how WIA resources have been used by state and local workforce investment boards to develop the health care workforce. Describes characteristics of WIA that can be used to support health workforce development.
Date: 11 / 2004
Female Physician Recruitment Secrets for Rural Communities
Sponsoring organization: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Lists the top 10 things a woman physician should know about rural medical practice as well as tips for rural communities in recruiting and retaining female physicians.
Date: 2005
Financing Dental Education: Public Policy Interests, Issues and Strategic Considerations
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Informs State and Federal officials about key issues concerning the structure and financing of dental education and, in particular, to highlight salient public policy considerations. The report's primary focus is on predoctoral dental education (i.e., programs that award D.D.S. or D.M.D. degrees to graduates of U.S. dental schools).
Date: 2006
Health Care Challenges Abundant in the Alaskan Frontier
Author(s): Candi Helseth
Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
Discusses health care workforce shortages in Alaska’s Wrangell and Petersburg frontier communities. Highlights Alaska’s Community Health Aide Program (CHAP), which serves the state’s Native population, using more than 550 Community Health Aides/Practitioners, employed by 27 tribal health organizations, who practice in more than 180 rural villages in the state’s most remote areas known as the bush.
Journal citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 08 / 2007
Health Professions Programs: Over 1,000,000 Trained and Counting FY 2008 Brochure
Sponsoring organization: Health Professions and Nursing Education Coalition
Discusses Titles VII and VIII of the Public Health Service Act which are health professions programs that support the training and education of health care providers with the aim of enhancing the supply, diversity, and distribution of the workforce, filling the
gaps in the health professions' supply.
Date: 2007
Health Workforce Recruitment and Retention in Critical Access Hospitals
Sponsoring organization: Rural Hospital Flexibility Program Tracking Project Consortium, 1999-2003
Describes Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) workforce and successful recruitment and retention strategies used in CAHs.
Journal citation: Findings from the Field Volume 3 Issue 5
Date: 11 / 2003
Imported Care: Recruiting Foreign Nurses to U.S. Health Care Facilities
Author(s): Barbara Brush
Examines past and current foreign nurse use as a response to nurse shortages and its implications for domestic and global nurse workforce policies.
Journal citation: Health Affairs Volume 23 Issue 3 Pages: 78-87
Date: 2004
In Our Hands: How Hospital Leaders Can Build A Thriving Workforce
Sponsoring organization: American Hospital Association
Presents the recommendations and conclusions of the AHA Commission on Workforce for Hospitals and Health Systems.
Date: 04 / 2002
International Medical Graduate Physicians in the U.S.: Changes Since 1981
Author(s): L. Gary Hart, Susan M. Skillman, Amy Hagopian, Meredith A. Fordyce, Matthew J. Thompson, Thomas R. Konrad
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Center for Health Workforce Studies
Results of a study which describes changes over time in IMGs' country of education, demographics, type of practice, specialty, and propensity to practice in needy locations since 1981.
Date: 03 / 2005
International Medical Graduates and the Primary Care Workforce for Rural Underserved Areas
Author(s): Kenneth S. Fink
An analysis of primary care IMGs compared to U.S. medical graduates working in rural underserved areas.
Journal citation: Health Affairs Volume 22 Issue 2 Pages: 255-262
Date: 04 / 2003
Measuring the Years: State Aging Trends & Indicators
Author(s): Laura Summer
Sponsoring organization: National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
Identifies current trends and future directions confronting state policy makers. Provides a wealth of information on topics ranging from
demographic shifts, health care concerns, and long term care workforce shortages.
Date: 11 / 2004
Medical School Programs to Increase the Rural Physician Supply: A Systematic Review and Projected Impact of Widespread Replication
Author(s): Howard K. Rabinowitz, James J. Diamond, Fred W. Markham
Sponsoring organization: Association of American Medical Colleges
Study which examined rural physician training efforts. Six medical school programs designed to increase the ranks of rural physicians could be nationally replicated to more than double the number of graduates who choose to practice in rural areas across the next decade.
Journal citation: Academic Medicine Volume 83 Issue 3 Pages: 235-243
Date: 03 / 2008
Medicare Physician Payment: Impacts of Changes on Rural Physicians
Author(s): Keith J. Mueller, A. Clinton MacKinney, Timothy D. McBride
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis
Overview of the effects of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003 on physician payment rates in rural areas. Discusses the impact of creating a floor of 1.00 in the geographic practice cost index (GPCI) for work expense and the effects of the Medicare incentive payment (MIP) for providing services in shortage areas and of the bonus for practicing in a physician scarcity area.
Date: 09 / 2006
Nursing Workforce: HHS Needs Methodology to Identify Facilities with a Critical Shortage of Nurses
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
GAO reports on changes in the RN shortage since 2000. Also discusses the impact of the Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program (NELRP) and Nursing Scholarship Program (NSP) on the shortage of nurses.
Date: 04 / 2007
On-Line Atlas of International Medical Graduates
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Center for Health Workforce Studies
Displays trends in the geographic distribution of IMGs over the past 20 years through a series of maps.
Date: 2006
Partnering to Address Health Care Workforce
Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
Describes a program in rural Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa that combines an effort to lower unemployment and to address the area's health workforce shortage.
Journal citation: Rural Monitor Volume 10 Issue 1
Date: 2003
Pathways to Rural Practice: A Chartbook of Family Medicine Residency Training Locations and Characteristics
Author(s): L. Gary Hart, Denise M. Lishner, Eric H. Larson, Frederick M. Chen, C. Holly A. Andrilla, Thomas E. Norris, Ronald Schneeweiss, Tim M. Henderson, Roger A. Rosenblatt
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Discusses characteristics and geographic locations of family medicine residency programs' rural locations, types of rural family medicine training by location, and rural mission of family medicine residencies.
Date: 08 / 2005
Physician Shortage and Distribution
Sponsoring organization: American Hospital Association
Brief overview of the physician shortage issues faced by rural hospitals. Includes information on current public policy, and resources for hospitals.
Physician Supply and Demand: Projections to 2020
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Presents projections of physician supply and requirements for 18 physician specialties using the Physician Supply Model and the Physician Requirements Model. Describes data, assumptions and methods used to project the future supply of and requirements for physician services.
Date: 10 / 2006
Physician Workforce: Supply Increased in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas but Geographic Disparities Persisted
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
Describes the change in supply of physicians from 1991 to 2001. Includes data nationally and by state on physicians in nonmetropolitan areas and on the number of specialists versus generalists. Includes list of Health Resources and Services Administration programs that address the supply and distribution of health professionals, with 1991 and 2001 expenditures for each program.
Date: 10 / 2003
Primary Care Professionals: Recent Supply Trends, Projections, and Valuation of Services
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
Focuses on recent supply trends for primary care professionals, including information on training and demographic characteristics; projections of future supply for primary care professionals; and the influence of the health care system's financing mechanisms on the valuation of primary care services.
Date: 02 / 2008
Public Health Worker Shortages: Trends Alert
Author(s): Melissa Taylor Bell
Sponsoring organization: Council of State Governments
Discusses results of a survey done with human resource directors in state public health offices regarding public health workforce issues.
Date: 11 / 2004
Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health Care (Full Report)
Sponsoring organization: Institute of Medicine
Examines the quality of health care in rural America. Includes recommendations to improve health care quality and safety in rural communities. Addresses workforce, information technology, finance and other factors that impact rural health care quality.
Date: 11 / 2004
Rationale for Diversity in the Health Professions: A Review of the Evidence
Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Health Professions
Examined publicly available studies addressing a diverse health professions workforce.
Date: 10 / 2006
Reaching Out to Rural Regions: New MD Program Aims to Address Shortages
Author(s): Dian Land
Sponsoring organization: Wisconsin Office of Rural Health
Highlights the University of Wisconsin School
of Medicine and Public Health WARM Program, which is a new medical degree created and aimed at addressing the serious shortage of physicians in rural areas of Wisconsin. WARM stands for The Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine.
Date: 11 / 2006
Recruiting Local People to Fill Health Care Needs
Author(s): Candi Helseth
Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
Discusses how frontier and rural health care providers looking for innovative ways to solve increasing workforce shortages, are recruiting and training local people to be health care professionals in their communities. Highlights programs in Nevada, Maryland, and Alaska.
Journal citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 08 / 2007
Recruiting Physicians for Rural Settings
Author(s): Brian McCartie
Sponsoring organization: Catholic Health Association of the United States
Discusses effective strategies rural communities can use to recruit and retain physicians.
Journal citation: Health Progress
Date: 04 / 2004
Recruitment Process of Foreign Nurses gets a Boost from INS
Author(s): Scott Shepard
Discusses how the Immigration and Naturalization Service gave the recruiting industry a boost at the end of the year by issuing for the first time clear guidelines for using a H1-B visa for a nurse.
Journal citation: Memphis Business Journal
Date: 02 / 2003
Registered Nurse Population: Findings from the March 2004 National Sample of Registered Nurses
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
Summarizes results of a study on collected data on the actively licensed registered nurse
population as of March 2004.
Date: 03 / 2006
Rescuing the Health Workforce: Options for State Action
Sponsoring organization: National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
Discusses projected health workforce shortages nationwide, causes of the shortage in health care workers, and strategies used in several states to address the problem.
Date: 01 / 2004
Retaining Rural Nurses: Midwestern Summit on Retaining and Making Best use of the Older More Experienced Rural Registered Nurse
Sponsoring organization: Minnesota Office of Rural Health and Primary Care
Highlights of a one-day session, consisting of 25 nurse-leaders from Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota who engaged in a series of roundtable discussions on the future of older
nurses in rural communities.
Date: 08 / 2007
Retention of Family Physicians
Author(s): Robert C. Bowman
Helpful for all of those currently challenged with funding and other areas regarding family medicine and rural health. Document has text and links to other resources. Has a Midwest focus, but it can be revised to meet specific states.
Rural Health Facts: North Dakota Health Professions: Nursing
Sponsoring organization: University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health
Facts on the supply and demand for nurses in North Dakota. Includes data for RNs and LPNs.
Date: 2004
Rural Kaleidoscope: A Guide on Promising Practices to Diversify California's Rural Healthcare Workforce
Author(s): Lisel Blash, Eva Schiorring
Sponsoring organization: California State Rural Health Association
Focuses on helping those who recruit new health care professionals, retain existing staff, develop workforce partnerships, and work with community organizations.
Date: 12 / 2005
Rural Populations and Health Care Providers: A Map Book
Author(s): Randy Randolph, Katherine Gaul, Rebecca Slifkin
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (Cecil G. Sheps Center)
Uses 2000 Census data to reassess and provide a visual picture of where rural people live, how the racial and ethnic nature of rural populations is changing, and whether the distribution of health care providers matches
the population distribution.
Date: 09 / 2002
Rural Spotlight: An Interview with Robert C. Bowman, M.D.
Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
An interview with one of the country’s leading researchers in rural medical education who discusses ways to recruit and retain rural physicians.
Journal citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 11 / 2007
Rural Workers Would Benefit More Than Urban Workers from an Increase in the Federal Minimum Wage
Author(s): William O'Hare
Sponsoring organization: Carsey Institute
Looks at how an increase in the minimum wage would impact rural workers relative to urban workers by examining workers who are likely to benefit directly from an increase in the minimum wage because they currently earn less than $7.25 an hour. This group is called "low-wage workers." Looks at 74 million hourly workers who represent about 60 percent of all workers.
Date: 2007
Shortages of Medical Personnel at Community Health Centers
Author(s): Roger A. Rosenblatt, C. Holly A. Andrilla, Thomas Curtin, L. Gary Hart
Discusses staffing shortages at Community Health Centers (CHCs) in rural and urban locations and how these workforce shortages may impact efforts to expand the CHC program.
Journal citation: JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association Volume 295 Issue 9 Pages: 1042-1049
Date: 03 / 2006
State of the Health Workforce in Rural America: Profiles and Comparisons
Author(s): Eric H. Larson, Karin E. Johnson, Thomas E. Norris, Denis M. Lishner, Roger A. Rosenblatt, L. Gary Hart
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Overview of rural health care workforce issues. National and state-by-state data on the health care workforce, with rural-urban comparisons and interstate comparisons. Also includes data on rural health care facilities.
Date: 08 / 2003
State Public Health Employee Worker Shortage Report: A Civil Service Recruitment and Retention Crisis
Sponsoring organization: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Results of a survey of 37 state public health agencies on public health employee workforce shortages.
Date: 2005
Training Programs for Certified Nursing Assistants
Author(s): Esther Hernández-Medina, Susan Eaton, Donna Hurd, Alan White
Sponsoring organization: AARP
Reports on CNA education and training by exploring how many additional hours of initial training and clinical training are needed to
equip CNAs to provide good quality care to residents. It also examines pre-training
screening, remedial education, training in English as a Second Language, and shadowing; CNA
testing; and reimbursement of CNAs for their training and testing expenses.
Date: 03 / 2006
Trends in the Supply of Dentists in North Carolina, 1996-2005
Author(s): Erin Fraher, Katie Gaul, Jennifer King, Hazel Hadley, Claire de la Varre, Thomas Ricketts
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (Cecil G. Sheps Center)
Highlights workforce supply, distribution, professional shortage areas, demographics, and practice characteristics and training.
Date: 02 / 2007
United States Licensure for International Dentists
Sponsoring organization: American Dental Association
Provides information to dentists, who were educated outside the United States and Canada and wish to obtain a dental license in the U.S.
Date: 01 / 2006
Unlocking the Potential of Nursing: A Guide for Grantmakers
Author(s): Edward O'Neil, Elizabeth Mertz, Jenny Vance
Sponsoring organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Guide to help grantmakers working at the local level to address the nursing shortage. Includes an overview of the current nursing shortage, promising programs to address the shortage, and suggestions and resources for local foundations.
Date: 2006
War Has Big Impact in Rural Areas
Author(s): Candi Helseth
Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
Describes the challenges rural health care facilities experience when their health care providers are deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Journal citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 2007
What is Behind HRSA's Projected Supply, Demand, and Shortage of Registered Nurses?
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Provides a brief overview of two models: Nursing Supply Model (NSM) and the Nursing Demand Model (NDM). Describes the data, methods, and assumptions used to project RN supply and demand; presents findings from the models; and discusses the limitations of these and other models and methods to forecast demand for health workers.
Date: 2006
Who is Caring for the Underserved? A Comparison of Primary Care Physicians and Nonphysician Clinicians in California and Washington
Author(s): Kevin Grumbach, L. Gary Hart, Elizabeth Mertz, Janet Coffman, Lorella Palazzo
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Compares the geographic distribution and patient populations of physician and nonphysician primary care clinicians. Includes the proportion of clinicians within each discipline practicing in rural areas, Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), and areas with vulnerable populations.
Journal citation: Annals of Family Medicine Volume 1 Issue 2 Pages: 97-104
Date: 07 / 2003
Will Rural Family Medicine Residency Training Survive?
Author(s): Rosenblatt, Roger; Hagopian Amy; Andrilla Holly; Hart Gary
Sponsoring organization: Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Examines the recent performance of rural residencies in the National Resident Matching Program as an indicator of their viability.
Journal citation: Family Medicine Journal Volume 38 Issue 10 Pages: 705-711
Date: 11 / 2006
Workers Who Care: A Graphical Profile of the Frontline Health and Health Care Workforce
Sponsoring organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Chartbook providing information about frontline health care occupations, covering 32 occupational groups of health and health care workers with high levels of direct care/service, median annual
wages under $40,000 and required educational training of a bachelor's degree or below. Data is available at the national level and by state.
Date: 2006
Workforce Development in Rural Local Public Health Agencies
Sponsoring organization: National Association of County and City Health Officials
Focuses on the public health workforce recruitment and retention challenges as well as strategies for training and retraining new and existing staff in rural local public health practice areas.
Date: 07 / 2005
Workforce Development Networks in Rural Areas of the United States
Author(s): Gary Paul Green
Sponsoring organization: Southern Rural Development Center
Examines how workforce development networks are organized, why employers and community colleges participate in them, and the factors influencing
their success.
Date: 09 / 2003
