Graduate Medical Education Financing: Sustaining Medical Education in Rural Places

Date
05/2015
Description

Rural Training Track (RTT) graduate medical education (GME) programs have shown success at preparing family physicians for rural practice, but financial difficulties have contributed to program closures. This policy brief reports on a survey of RTT directors and administrators across the U.S. to understand their finances, including funding sources and expenditures.

Center
WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Authors
Davis Patterson, David Schmitz, Randall Longenecker, David Squire, Susan Skillman