Quentin N. Burdick Rural Program for Interdisciplinary Training

FY 2005 Grantees

PURPOSE

Section 754 under Title VII of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, as amended by the Health Professions Education Partnerships Act of 1998, PL 105-392 authorizes the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to make grants to meet the costs of rural interdisciplinary training projects.   The Quentin N. Burdick Program for Rural Interdisciplinary Training supports the interdisciplinary education and training of health professional teams to enter into and/or remain in rural areas.

The program is designed to:

1. Use new and innovative methods to train health care practitioners to provide services in rural areas;
2. Demonstrate and evaluate innovative interdisciplinary methods and models designed to provide access to cost-effective comprehensive health care;
3. Deliver health care services to individuals residing in rural areas;
4. Enhance the amount of relevant research conducted concerning health care issues in rural areas; and
5. Increase the recruitment and retention of health care practitioners from rural areas and make rural practice a more attractive career choice for health care practitioners.

Outcomes: 

In FY 2005, the program supported 19 projects that provided rural interdisciplinary community-based clinical training in 158 sites to 42,218 patients living in rural communities.  Eight hundred and thirty-one (831) health professions students in 135 interdisciplinary teams received clinical training in underserved areas.  Upon graduation, 113 health professions students chose to remain in practice in rural areas. 

PREVIOUS FUNDING EXPERIENCE

In FY 2005, a total of 19 grants were funded in the amount of $5.6 million
In FY 2004, a total of 24 grants were funded in the amount of $5.75 million
In FY 2003, a total of 22 grants were funded in the amount of $6.75 million
In FY 2002, a total of 28 grants were funded in the amount of $6.5 million
In FY 2001, a total of 27 grants were funded in the amount of $5.9 million
In FY 2000, a total of 23 grants were funded in the amount of $4.9 million.