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SA Zollo, MG Kienzle, Z Henshaw, LG Crist… - Journal of medical …, 1999 - Springer

Tele-education in a telemedicine environment: implications for rural health care and academic medical centers.

Build and Broaden 3.0 AND Program Evaluation

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Over 50 million people in the United States (about 20% of the population) live in rural areas, but only 9% of the nation's physicians practice in rural communities. It is difficult to recruit and retain rural health care practitioners, partly because of issues relating to professional isolation. New and enhanced telecommunications links between community and academic hospitals show promise for reducing this isolation and enhancing lifelong learning opportunities for rural health care providers. This paper will explore some of the issues …

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