Bentonville-based Heartland Whole Health Institute launched Monday (June 22) a new statewide Graduate Medical Education (GME) Technical Assistance Center, released a report identifying gaps in the state’s physician training system, and outlined strategies to expand residency capacity statewide.
The effort is aimed, in part, at improving access to care in rural and underserved communities where physician shortages are often most acute, according to a news release. The report and the new Graduate Medical Education Technical Assistance Center constitute an effort to address one of the state’s most urgent healthcare challenges: the growing gap between medical school graduates and the residency training available in Arkansas needed to keep more Arkansas-trained physicians in the state.
Link here for the report, “Growing the Physician Workforce in Arkansas: A Statewide GME Strategy.”…