Rural Training Track- Technical Assistance Demonstration Program

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The purpose of the RTT-TA Demonstration Program is to form a consortium of organizations to better understand the challenges that Rural Training Track (RTT) residency program sites have when recruiting family physicians to train and practice in rural settings. This consortium will work to identify and analyze the key policy issues affecting these rural training sites and, once these challenges and barriers are identified, to provide technical assistance to increase the number of family medicine physicians that choose to practice in rural areas. As part of the Improving Rural Health Care Initiative, ORHP seeks to use this Cooperative Agreement as a pilot program to determine if targeted policy and technical assistance for the nations RTTs can affect their viability and fill rate and ultimately their ability to produce the maximum number of rural physicians. The intent of this pilot is to create a strong national network of RTTs in the hope that this effort could be self sustaining after an initial Federal investment either through consortium members themselves or through cost savings associated with any decreases in recruitment fees of residents and future physicians. The Rural Training Track Technical Assistance (RTT-TA) Demonstration Program requires the establishment of a consortium to encourage creative and lasting relationships among all or almost all RTT programs across the nation. The consortium must be composed of a central entity that coordinates all cooperative agreement activities and that will serve as the applicant of record with the exception that the applicant will have relationships with, and develop a consortium of, all or almost all RTT programs across the nation as well as any other partner entities necessary to establish the consortium of RTTs. ORHP is defining, for the purposes of this cooperative agreement, a Rural Family Medicine Residency Program- Rural Training Track (RTT) program as a "1+2 program" where the first year of training is done at a central, usually urban, site and the last two years are based at rural training sites.

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