Postgraduate education to expand access to dental care: A roadmap to community dental program development.

Evidence indicates an increasing shortage of dentists in communities across the United States with potentially significant implications for oral health, as well as overall health and well-being. One strategy to increase access to dental care in rural and underserved communities is community-based postgraduate dental training. However, developing new dental programs requires navigating complex accreditation, financial and community governance, among other, barriers.

Responding to One Rural Community's Primary Care Needs: Investing in Workforce and Broad Community Stakeholder Engagement.

Lack of access to high-quality primary care has been shown to contribute to urban-rural health disparities. We describe a model in which an academic health system made targeted primary care investments to address rural health disparities while building the health workforce to ensure sustainability.

New Opportunities for Expanding Rural Graduate Medical Education to Improve Rural Health Outcomes: Implications of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021.

Evidence shows that those living in rural communities experience consistently worse health outcomes than their urban and suburban counterparts. One proven strategy to address this disparity is to increase the physician supply in rural areas through graduate medical education (GME) training. However, rural hospitals have faced challenges developing training programs in these underserved areas, largely due to inadequate federal funding for rural GME.