title: Rural clinical experiences for emergency medicine residents: a curriculum template.
abstract: Rural emergency departments (EDs) in the United States are less likely to be staffed with emergency medicine (EM) residency-trained and American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM)-certified physicians than urban EDs. Rural EM clinical experiences during residency training have been suggested as a strategy to encourage future rural practice, but past Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Residency Review Committee for Emergency Medicine program requirements and a lack of familiarity with rural rotations in the EM graduate medical education (GME) community have limited their availability. To provide a template for the development and implementation of a rural EM clinical experience, Kern's six-step approach was followed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Nebraska College of Medicine, Omaha, NE, USA. mwadman@unmc.edu
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Wadman
authors.forename: Ted R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: Douglas F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Kupas
authors.forename: Marlow
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Macht
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McLaughlin
authors.forename: Terry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mize
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Casaletto
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Muelleman
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003479:Curriculum; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000458:organization & administration; D008297:Male; D020380:Needs Assessment; D011786:Quality Control; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012424:Rural Population; D014481:United States