Professional Development

Robust community engagement is essential to the development and sustainability of a rural program in graduate medical education. This requires more than a Community Needs Assessment or even a few informational stakeholder meetings. To engage in developing and sustaining a program ‘with’ the community requires an asset-based, collaborative approach that is mutually respectful, transparent and iterative. The presenter will engage the audience in exploring what counts as an asset, review a tool for documenting assets and capacity for health professions training and outline a process for iterative community engagement through program development, subsequent implementation, maintenance and refinement.

After participating in this webinar, you will be able to:

• Identify friends and stakeholders in your local community important to the development of a residency program 
• Use the asset-based TREES tool to engage them in developing an asset and capacity inventory of your community for this purpose
• Articulate several ongoing engagement and relationship strategies for sustaining and growing programs, and for addressing challenges over time

Speaker:

• Randall Longenecker, MD, Assistant Dean Emeritus Rural and Underserved Programs, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
  

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