Quentin N. Burdick Rural Program for Interdisciplinary Training

FY 2004 Funding Opportunities

Rural Interdisciplinary Training grants support innovative training that prepares health care providers for practice in rural communities, which comprise more than half of U.S. health professional shortage areas.

Since 1990, health professions schools, academic health centers, state and local governments, and other nonprofit organizations have used Rural Interdisciplinary Training grants to:

• Use new and innovative methods to train health care practitioners to provide services in rural areas;

• Demonstrate and evaluate methods and models that improve access to cost effective, comprehensive health care;

• Provide health care services to people in rural communities;

• Expand research into rural health care issues; and

• Recruit and retain health care providers in rural areas.

Funding History
FY 2003: $6.2 million awarded to 23 projects
FY 2002: $6.5 million awarded to 28 projects
FY 2001: $5.8 million awarded to 26 projects

Project Links

Rural Interdisciplinary Training FY 2002 New Projects

Current issue of Rural Routes, newsletter of Interdisciplinary Rural Training Program grantees (Adobe Acrobat™)

University of Arizona (Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, Social Work)

University of Colorado (Area Health Education Centers Team Training)

Medical College of Georgia (Allied Health Students in Collaborative Action and Research)

University of Louisville, Kentucky (Kent School of Social Work/Interdisciplinary Community Screening)

University of Maine (Multi-level Innovative Interdisciplinary Training)

Western Maryland Area Health Education Center (Prevention and Geriatric Assessment)

Western Michigan University (Health Education)

Creighton University, Nebraska (Occupational and Physical Therapy with Native Americans)

University of Nebraska (Interdisciplinary Training for Diabetic Care in Rural Native American Community)

University of New Mexico (Dental Hygiene, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy, Public Health, Respiratory Therapy, Social Work, Speech-Language Pathology)

East Carolina University, North Carolina (Overcoming Geographic and Cultural Barriers, Inadequate Health Insurance Coverage and Limited Availability of Services in Communities in Five Rural Counties)

University of South Dakota (Build Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes of advanced level graduate health care students in the areas of interdisciplinary teaming, rural practice and including people with disabilities and their families in all aspects of care)

West Virginia University (Appalachian Community Health)

For more information, e-mail Marcia Starbecker or phone 301-443-6867