Informing Rural Primary Care Policy: What Does the Evidence Tell Us? View the webinar online [Flash] View or download the PowerPoint slides [PPT] View the companion Literature Review [.pdf]

These resources examine rural primary care workforce policy through the lens of evidence-based research on the topic.

Webinar Presentation

Recorded Wednesday, September 23, 2010
Runs 54:30 minutes

Dr. Mark Doescher describes documented trends in rural primary care supply and demand issues, citing data related to physician specialty choice, family medicine training, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and much more. Laura Tobler and Tom Ricketts serve as respondents to Doescher’s presentation, examining the topic through the lenses of state-level budget crises and policy analysis, respectively.

Please note: due to technical difficulties, the first five minutes of Doescher’s presentation were omitted from the archived webinar recording. The omitted slides are included in the PPT link above.

• Mark Doescher, MD, MSPH
  Director, WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
• Tom Ricketts, PhD, MPH
  Deputy Director of the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
• Laura Tobler, MPP
  Program Director of the National Conference of State Legislators’ Health Program

Companion Literature Review
A formal review of rural primary care workforce research published between 2000 and 2010 by federal Rural Health Research Centers.

• 51 publications profiled and organized into six subtopics
• Entire bibliography is hyperlinked to freely accessible, full-text .pdfs of all profiled publications.