Publications and Presentations

UMass Rural Health Scholars Program

• A Little Known Aspect of Health Care Delivery in Rural Areas: The Visiting Specialist
  Journal of Rural Health. 2006; 22:294-299
• Rural Primary Care Physician Workforce in Massachusetts
  March 2007
• Health Care Delivery in Rural Massachusetts:  The Visiting Specialist Model
  New England Rural Health Roundtable,  October 2005
• The Primary Care Physician Workforce in Massachusetts:  Implications for the Workforce in Rural, Small Town America
  The Journal of Rural Health
• The Massachusetts Rural Health Landscape
   presentation to HRSA Project Directors September 2011 by Cathleen McElligott, Director, Massachusetts State Office of Rural Health
• Strengthening the Patient-Centered Medical Home at Barre Family Health Center
  presentation to HRSA Project Directors September 2011 by Shaula Woz, UMass Chan Student
• State Office of Rural Health Director Cathleen McElligott’s presentation to students August, 2012
• Ethical Matters in Rural Integrated Primary Care Settings
  Families, Systems and Health, 2013, Vol. 31, No.1, 69-74

Other

Rural and Remote Health

• Why do medical graduates choose rural careers?
• Personal characteristics and experiences of long-term allied health professionals in rural and northern British Columbia
• Interest in rural medicine among osteopathic residents and medical students
• The impact of recession on the health care of rural citizens in the northwest United States
• From sea to shining sea: making collaborative rural research work
• A critical review of interventions to redress the inequitable distribution of healthcare professionals to rural and remote areas
• The Sustainable Farm Families Project: changing attitudes to health
• Why do medical graduates choose rural careers?
• The changing nature of nursing work in rural and small community hospitals
• Rural health roundtables: a strategy for collaborative engagement in and between rural communities
• They really do go
• A critical review of interventions to redress the inequitable distribution of healthcare professionals to rural and remote areas
• Preferences and intention of rural adolescents toward seeking help for mental health problems

The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

• 24(1):93-101 (2011) - The Rural Medical Scholars Program Study: Data to Inform Rural Health
  Policy

The Journal of Rural Health

• Volume 25, Issue 2, 2009
  
• Volume 25, Issue 1, 2009
• Volume 26, Issue 2, 2010
• Volume 27, Issue 1, 2010

Maine Rural Health Research Center

• The Provision of Mental Health Services by Rural Health Clinics, May 2010

Down-East Magazine

• Invisible Mainers

Panguitch Journal: A Rare Case of Homegrown Medicine

• Click here to read article

 What's New with the HCFO?

• Hot Topic:  Rural Health, October 16, 2009

 New York Times

• Family physicians figure prominently and positively in meeting the needs of Maine patients and communities.

Family Medicine Education Consortium, Inc.

•  For country doctor, house calls are a hike down Grand Canyon

Miscellaneous

• Rural family medicine in the 21st century has challenges
• Dr. Jeffrey Zack charts change in hospital ER