Transitioning to rural practice together: a rural fellowship model (in 6 Ps).

Purpose: Maintaining a robust healthcare workforce in underserved rural communities continues to be a challenge. To better meet healthcare needs in rural areas, training programs must develop innovative ways to foster transition to, and integration into, these communities. Mountain Area Health Education Center designed and implemented a 12-month post-residency Rural Fellowship program to enhance placement, transition, and retention in rural North Carolina.

Access to clinical pharmacy services in a pharmacist-physician covisit model.

Background: A pharmacist-physician covisit model in which patients see both a pharmacist and physician on the same day was established in a primary care practice. Previously, patients were seen in a referrals-based model in which providers referred patients for clinical pharmacy services on a different day.

Objective: To assess access to clinical pharmacy services in a pharmacist-physician covisit model compared to a referrals-based model.

Reflections and interdisciplinary perceptions of pharmacy learners on an international medical brigade.

Background And Purpose: The Mountain Area Health Education Center, Inc. and Shoulder to Shoulder have partnered on medical brigades in rural Honduras since 2005, with pharmacy learner participation beginning in 2007. This study assesses the value of this experience to pharmacy learners and their contribution to a brigade's success.

Evaluation of a pharmacist-physician covisit model in a family medicine practice.

Objectives: To describe the financial implications, efficiency, and patient access to care with the use of a pharmacist-physician covisit model in a primary care practice.

Setting: A rural satellite practice of a large, teaching, multidisciplinary, family medicine organization.

Practice Description: Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) is a large, multisite, family medicine teaching practice.

Hyperbaric oxygen does not prevent neurologic sequelae after carbon monoxide poisoning.

Unlabelled: Delayed neurologic sequelae occur in up to 40% of severe carbon monoxide (CO) poisonings. Conflicting clinical data support the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy in the acute treatment of CO poisoning.

Objective: To determine whether oxygen therapy reduces neurologic sequelae after CO poisoning in mice.