Rural GME Eligibility Webinar Key Audience: HRSA grant applicants, rural hospitals, state offices of rural health, academic medical centers, HRSA colleagues, provider/external organizations Objective: Unveil the GME tool and explain caveats, and how this tool may be used Convene key stakeholders in GME and solicit conversation about next steps on state and federal levels, as well as challenges faced Connect external organizations and grantees with Federal representatives Platform: Adobe Connect Timing: April 11, 2016, 3-4 PM Proposed agenda for webinar: Introduction of the rural GME “problem” (10 minutes) (Candice Chen and Tom Morris) Existing HRSA efforts: BHW Teaching Health Center : # in rural areas, description of how this program addresses some of the challenges currently posed by regulations (i.e. community based settings vs. hospitals) RTT TA Program and development of RTT Collaborative (Randy Longenecker) Regulatory Context : CMS (Miechal Lefkowitz, Renate Dombrowski) (7-10 minutes) Description of regulatory language Description of what flexibilities exist Definition of eligibility according to CMS GME tool unveiling (10 minutes) Intro by BHW/FORHP Explanation of the data provided, UNC Sheps Center (George Pink, UNC) Explanation of how to filter, use tool, HRSA data warehouse (Sanjoy Chakraborty, HRSA Datawarehouse) Questions/ Discussion
Rural GME Eligibility Webinar Key Audience: HRSA grant applicants, rural hospitals, state offices of rural health, academic medical centers, HRSA colleagues, provider/external organizations Objective: Unveil the GME tool and explain caveats, and how this tool may be used Convene key stakeholders in GME and solicit conversation about next steps on state and federal levels, as well as challenges faced Connect external organizations and grantees with Federal representatives Platform: Adobe Connect Timing: April 11, 2016, 3-4 PM Proposed agenda for webinar: Introduction of the rural GME “problem” (10 minutes) (Candice Chen and Tom Morris) Existing HRSA efforts: BHW Teaching Health Center : # in rural areas, description of how this program addresses some of the challenges currently posed by regulations (i.e. community based settings vs. hospitals) RTT TA Program and development of RTT Collaborative (Randy Longenecker) Regulatory Context : CMS (Miechal Lefkowitz, Renate Dombrowski) (7-10 minutes) Description of regulatory language Description of what flexibilities exist Definition of eligibility according to CMS GME tool unveiling (10 minutes) Intro by BHW/FORHP Explanation of the data provided, UNC Sheps Center (George Pink, UNC) Explanation of how to filter, use tool, HRSA data warehouse (Sanjoy Chakraborty, HRSA Datawarehouse) Questions/ Discussion
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