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Our overall plan is to
design and implement sound educational interventions to increase the
number of (1) medical students that choose a family practice
residency and (2) residents to chose a family medicine practice in a
rural or frontier community in ND. We propose to develop structures
and resources in the department to allow for major enhancements to
the entire predoctoral curriculum, enrichment of four family
practice residency programs and faculty development for rural family
physicians as preceptors and faculty as researcher.
Goal I: Develop,
implement and evaluate a nine-month rural and frontier
family-practice-office-based experience to replace traditional
series of clinical specialty rotations. This new program,
ROME, Rural
Opportunities in Medical Education,
required for 16 3rd/yr students will be administered by
the DFM.
Goal II: Further
develop curriculum in family medicine research, especially relevant
to rural practice, from predoctoral through residency levels, and
implement expanded resident and faculty research, especially among
the Department’s four family practice residency programs.
Goal III: Strengthen
the DFM’s administrative base for centralized support and
coordination of education, research, and practice at diverse and
remote Family Medicine settings throughout ND, enhancing efforts to
meet needs of this state’s rural and underserved communities.
Measurable ROME learning objectives and outcomes: provide
comprehensive care; possess beginning procedural skills essential to
a family physician; demonstrate working capacity with other members
of a health care team; demonstrate interpersonal skills so as to
recognize psycho-social, sexual, and family components of medical
problems; demonstrate rudimentary skills and values that can lead to
becoming a life-long independent learner; demonstrate increased
valuing of a rural lifestyle and evidence increased personal
confidence and competence in assuming the role of a rural family
physician; and, ultimately, change student’s career path toward
family practice in rural and frontier ND. Measurable resident
objectives and faculty objectives with respect to research skills
will also be defined |