MODULE 10: Rural Health (Last Reviewed 5/1//24)
Module Presentation
Learning Objectives
Summarize 5 factors that contribute to health disparities for rural patients.
Compare differences in best practices in rural vs. urban emergency departments.
Devise potential approaches for improving care for patients in rural settings.
Describe the structure of health services available for Native patients and health disparities facing Native populations.
Identify challenges and opportunities in maintaining the emergency medicine workforce in rural settings.
Identify challenges and opportunities in maintaining the emergency medicine workforce in rural settings.
Describe factors that influence EM providers’ decisions to work in rural settings in developing a rural emergency workforce
Describe challenges in developing a rural emergency workforce
Describe differences in training opportunities for EM residents in rural vs. urban settings
Literature Review
Articles
Emergency medical care in rural America (10.1067/mem.2001.115217)
Structural Urbanism Contributes To Poorer Health Outcomes For Rural America (10.1377/hlthaff.2019.00914)
Access to emergency care in the United States (10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.11.016)
Nonemergency medicine-trained physician coverage in rural emergency departments (10.1111/j.1748-0361.2008.00156.x)
Motivations and barriers for recruitment of new emergency medicine residency graduates to rural emergency departments (10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.06.561)
The Role of Family Physicians in an Evolving Emergency Medicine Workforce (10.1016/j.annemergmed.2022.03.016)
Emergency medicine rural rotations: a program director's guide (10.1016/j.annemergmed.2012.09.012)
Comparing Resident Procedures in Rural Versus Urban Emergency Departments (10.7759/cureus.19989)
Supplemental Materials
Sim cases/Case studies
Bernstein E, Bernstein J. Case Studies in Emergency Medicine and the Health of the Public. Jones & Bartlett; 1996.
Key Websites
Assessments
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