Rural Coordinator Position at UNMC

Primary duties:

  1. To facilitate and coordinate the rural efforts of the department and its faculty
  2. To assist the department and chairman so that there is a fit between the various programs, the needs of the students or residents, and the needs of the state.

Resources and assistance:
  1. To work with a secretary plus any temporary help needed during peak times when that help cannot be provided by other coordinators and secretaries.
  2. To work with the Rural Training Track coordinator and preceptorship coordinator.

Rural Faculty Meeting Agenda Items

Direct Role for Coordinator:
  1. Coordination of the National Health Service Corps SEARCH program, working with students, faculty, community contacts, and the Office of Rural Health
  2. Senior electives for medical students in rural medicine and community health/epidemiology
  3. Rural faculty development efforts
  4. Helping students interested in rural practice get the advice and mentorship they need
  5. Rural databases of rural faculty, students, residents
  6. Rural research and service efforts of faculty
  7. Assistance to other rural coordinators across campus and state, see scope of rural programs below
  8. Information for students and faculty about rural programs, brochures, web sites, phone
  9. Information regarding rural programs to the med. school/UNMC/state
  10. Contacts regarding rural interested students at all levels in Nebraska and across the nation

Special Goals This Year:

  1. Improvements to web site, search capability, editing
  2. Evaluations of the SEARCH program
  3. Assistance regarding new competitive grant for SEARCH program
  4. Initiation of SEARCH training with PharmD students and counseling students
  5. Quarterly rural meetings of the various rural faculty currently in Omaha, Lincoln, and RTT sites
  6. Work to improve mental health & agricultural med training in rural-interested students & residents
  7. Faculty development activities for current faculty and preceptors, especially at CORE sites
  8. Establish regular meetings regarding development of the interdisciplinary COPC/NHSC programs
  9. Improvements in information gathering regarding CORE site
  10. Working with the Student Association for Rural Health SARH on meetings, membership, info on other rural organizations such as NeRHA and NRHA

Scope of the Department’s Rural Programs:
  1. Three week M-1 Integrated Clinical Experience rotation in rural Nebraska
  2. NHSC SEARCH experience, summer elective after M-1 year or PA , NP, PharmD, counseling
  3. RHOP students - special assistance
  4. Rural research experiences for students
  5. Rural preceptorship, 2 months in the M-3 year
  6. Accelerated Rural Training Program, starts in the M-4 year and ends with a rural fellowship
  7. 2 month Combined Outstate Medical Experience in PGY-2 or 3 year, rural family practice rotation

Scope of Department Faculty:

Jeff Hill, Dean of students and admissions

Steele, Bowman, Paulman, Harrison, Hill – M-2 year Director and ICE faculty

Paulman - Rural preceptorship meeting at NAFP

Harrison – RTT director and ARTP director, also CORE

Bowman - National Association of Rural Medical Educators, interim director

Bowman - NARME/NRHA meeting May 2001

Bowman - SEARCH program

Bowman - Annual rural presentation to AAFP Student Resident Meeting

Bowman - Annual Rural Recruitment Fair, not likely until Oct 2001

Bowman – college visits to Chadron, Wayne, Norfolk

Efforts with others on campus:

Roxanna Jokela – SARH, High School Career Fair in October, RHOP – Rural Health Opportunities Program,

       RHEN – Rural Health Education Network

Mark Christiansen – PA coordinator for SEARCH

Kate Fiandt – Nursing School coordinator for SEARCH

Carol Pullen – Associate Dean for Rural at College of Nursing, SEARCH Evaluation

Programs in Development:

  1. New rural programs – rural sites, rural curriculum, assistance to rural communities
  2. Longitudinal rural experience for third or fourth year medical students – Paulman
  3. Support efforts to establish a nationally recognized rural faculty development center – Bowman, Stageman
  4. Recruitment of candidates for the rural programs

Logistic support for rural programs:
  1. Rural newsletters and rural program information
  2. Evaluations of rural programs
  3. Coordinate with other rural organization
  4. NE Rural Health, Office of Rural Health, NAFP, NMA
  5. Assistance with travel, teleconferencing