Saturday, April 5, 2025
4/5/2025
Rural Residency Planning and Development Program - Applicant Name: New York Institute of Technology Eligible Entity Type: Graduate Medical Education Consortium Project Director Name & Contact Information: Amanda Ann Deel, D.O. ; Associate Dean, NYITCOM-AR, adeel@nyit.edu, 870-680-8195 Residency Program Director Name & Contact Information: Chimere Ashley, M.D., chimere.ashley@mchsys.org , 870-838-7530 Residency Specialty: Family Medicine Residency Format: Separately Accredited Rural Track Program (ACGME RTP Type 1) Sponsoring Institution Organization and Location: New York Institute of Technology, College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State, P.O. Box 119, State University, Arkansas, 72367 Rural Target Area(s): Mississippi County, Arkansas Funding Amount Requested: $750,000 Program Sustainability Option: Option 1 – Establishing a Medicare FTE Resident Cap Option 3 – Medicare FTE Resident Cap Expansion for RTPs Option 4 – Other public or private funding Projected Total Number of Residents: 12 Residents total (4 per year) Expected ACGME Accreditation: October 28, 2023 Expected Residency Matriculation Dates: July 1, 2024 Funding Priority Points Requested N/A New York Institute of Technology, College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) proposes to build a Family Medicine Rural Track Program (FMRTP) that will serve northeastern Arkansas. Resident training will primarily take place at Great River Medical Center (GRMC), located in Blytheville, Arkansas—a 99-bed acute care full-service hospital that is part of Mississippi County Hospital System. NYITCOM will serve as the Sponsoring Institution. The primary goal of the FMRTP is to actively address the physician workforce shortages and increase access to care for the rural communities in Mississippi County and eastern Arkansas that we serve. In an effort to successfully augment the physician workforce in this target service area, residents in the FMRTP will be provided with a robust breadth of quality educational experiences. This will include rotations at South Mississippi County Regional Medical Center (SMC), a 25-bed critical access center located in Osceola, Arkansas, which is sister hospital in the Mississippi County Hospital System, and St. Bernards Medical Center (SBMC), an urban, 440-bed acute-care hospital in Jonesboro, Arkansas. NYITCOM projects to submit a New Program Application (NPA) to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in May 2023, achieve accreditation by October 28, 2023, and recruit four (4) Family Medicine residents to begin training on July 1, 2024. NYITCOM’s focus is to train and retain at least 50% of the graduating residents to combat the physician workforce shortage in rural communities of eastern Arkansas, and thus, expand the area’s current access to primary care close to home. According to 2022 data, there is currently one (1) primary care physician (PCP) to every 2,390 people in Mississippi County, AR (2,390:1). Compared to the entire state of Arkansas, which has a ratio of 1,470:1, and the United States with a ratio of 1,310:1, there is a significantly greater need for primary care physicians in eastern Arkansas. The addition of a FMRTP to the Mississippi County area will be a strategic step for our system to assist in recruitment and retention where attracting primary care physicians has been very limited and difficult. This will also address the growing population gap and access to care in our rural service area.
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