Nova Southeastern University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine recently received a five-year, $1 million federal grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to train medical residents to provide expert care for patients living in rural and underserved communities. The grant will be used to develop training programs for the college’s affiliated family medicine residency program at Larkin Community Hospital in South Miami, Florida, which currently trains 18 family medicine residents.
The grant will create curriculum and clinical training in medically underserved communities, which include rural and urban areas where physicians and medical services are scarce. The funding will also be used to develop training in other areas such as all-hazards preparedness, genomics, and medical informatics.
One of the grant’s goals is to encourage more primary care residents to become practicing physicians in these underserved areas. Research has shown that medical schools that have received this grant in the past have produced more physicians who end up practicing in such areas.
