About this event
Rural healthcare professionals face an array of challenges in their practices and facilities. The closure of facilities and dropping numbers of clinicians has created a lack of access to care. In addition, those working in primary care may struggle to get patients to the appropriate care due to a lack of local specialists. This puts greater stress on the healthcare professionals in these areas, leading to greater incidence of burnout.
Dr. Mark Woodring, Assistant Dean for Rural Health at the Oklahoma State Center for Rural Health, will present on the challenges of lack of access, specialty disparities and burnout, offering strategies to push back against these common problems. He will also discuss proactive ways that a practice can handle transition years when approaching the retirement of a physician or clinician and methods for creating a rural physician pipeline in your community.
Who can attend
Registration is limited to ISMIE and SEMPIC policyholders and their employed staff.
Learning objectives
- List elements of a comprehensive action plan designed to alleviate lack of access and specialty disparities in rural communities
- Describe strategies to reduce higher burnout rates of rural physicians
- Review an example of a local quality improvement process designed to better prepare rural physicians for transitioning to retirement and handling “near-retirement” years
- Identify steps to form a successful rural physician pipeline in your community
About the presenter
Mark Woodring, DrPH, FACHE, is the Laurence L. and Georgia I. Dresser Chair of Rural Health Policy, AT&T Professor of Telemedicine, and Assistant Dean for Rural Health at the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (OSU CHS). As the StORM (Students in Osteopathic Medicine) Club advisor and instructor of the Rural & Underserved Populations course each fall semester for second year medical students, Mark enjoys creating shared learning and research opportunities for OSU students, faculty and rural medical communities throughout Oklahoma. Mark also leads the OSU Center for Rural Health at OSU CHS, comprised of diverse faculty and staff at the State Office of Rural Health in Oklahoma City, AHEC, Telehealth, Global Health, and the OSU Rural Health Policy & Research Center created in 2002 in partnership with the State of Oklahoma. He is also a co-director of the OSU Tier One funded Rural Renewal Initiative. Prior to OSU, he spent 20 years as a hospital CEO and senior executive with the Kansas Department of Health & Environment, leading various healthcare finance and policy initiatives for the largest branch of Kansas state government. Committed to achieving rural health equity through effective governance, policy, and community-based participatory research, he serves on numerous board of directors including the Rural Health Association of Oklahoma, Telehealth Alliance of Oklahoma, the Texas A&M Center for Optimizing Rural Health national advisory board.
Mark is past Board Vice-Chair and Treasurer of Kansas Health Collaborative Board of Directors, a joint venture between the Kansas Hospital Association and Kansas Medical Society dedicated to transforming healthcare through patient-centered initiatives that improve quality, safety, and value through meaningful healthcare quality improvement education, evaluation, and measurement. Mark received his BS in Risk Management & Insurance from Bradley University, MHA from the University of Iowa, and DrPH from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Illinois State Medical Society and ISMIE Mutual Insurance Company. The Illinois State Medical Society is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit designation
The Illinois State Medical Society designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure
There are no relevant financial relationships with ACCME-defined commercial interests for anyone who was in control of the content of this activity.
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