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This is a case study illustrating the wide variety of models for rural health care delivery found in a western "frontier" state. In response to a legislative mandate, the University of Nevada School of Medicine created the Office of Rural Health in 1977. Utilizing a cooperative, community development approach, this office served as a resource, as well as a catalyst, in the development and expansion of a variety of alternative practice models for health care delivery to small, underserved rural communities.

A number of activities that would eventually change the field of continuing medical education (CME) occurred between May 1, 1988, and May 1, 1989. This report summarizes many of these initiatives, as well as updates ongoing CME activities.

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A relatively simple method for estimating the ability of rural communities to support health provider personnel services, the utilization of this tool is described and illustrated.

Healthcare professionals in the United States have been relatively unaware of the great interest in and experience with teamwork in health care going on in Great Britain and on the European continent. The author's reference to the famous call of Paul Revere, “the British are coming”, is not meant to imply that the British or their fellow Europeans are just arriving upon the scene, but, rather, that, in a more accurate historical sense, they have landed in force and are marching in well organized progression towards their objectives.

At the University of Nevada School of Medicine, medical students were introduced to community resources in their sophomore year. Studies strongly suggest that the physician who has some knowledge about a community agency, either through direct communication or through a patient's positive experience, tends to refer other patients to that resource.

In 1974, the University of Nevada, Reno, received a special health careers opportunity grant to fund the Health Careers for American Indians Program (HCAIP).  Aimed at increasing the number of Native American students enrolled in the university's model interdisciplinary health sciences program, HCAIP concentrated its first efforts on recruiting promosing high school students into a variety of health careers requiring university level training by means of a 6-week Summer Health Careers Program.

At the Forsyth Dental Infirmary, Boston, the orthodontist, pediatrician, nutritionist and child psychiatrist collaborate to promote a more comprehensive approach to the patient with malocclusion of the teeth. Each discipline contributes a special facet to the total clinical assessment of the child. The diagnostic conference serves as an important educational experience in the program of the postgraduate fellows in orthodontics.

Achieving the goals of health care reform – described by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement as the “Triple Aim” – will place new demands on the health care workforce. Interprofessional team-based care, quality and process improvement, and population health management are not skills that have been emphasized in traditional health professions education and training.

This is a mixed methods study to examine learning outcomes on Physician Assistant students of a longitudinal geriartics IPE curriculum for 5 health professions.

In September 2013, 84 fourth-year dental students, 168 second-year medical students, and 84 nurse practitioner and nurse-midwifery students gathered in small groups at the New York Simulation Center, operated by the NYU School of Medicine at Bellevue Hospital Center, to learn from one another and gain a stronger understanding of the roles and responsibilities of each profession.