Program director, ECU Health Rural Family Medicine Residency Program, Greenville, North Carolina.
Site director and chief medical officer, ECU Health Rural Family Medicine Residency Program and Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center, Ahoskie, North Carolina.
N C Med J. 2022 May-Jun;83(3):173-177. doi: 10.18043/ncm.83.3.173.
North Carolina is a leader in family medicine, but a growing health care chasm exists between the state's urban centers and rural areas. Training family medicine residents in rural communities can address disparities in health care access and improve rural population health metrics for all subsets of the population, goals that align well with renewed state and national strategies.
北卡罗来纳州是家庭医学领域的领导者,但该州的城市中心和农村地区之间存在日益扩大的医疗保健差距。在农村社区培训家庭医学住院医师可以解决医疗保健机会方面的差异,并改善所有人群的农村人口健康指标,这些目标与州和国家的新战略非常一致。