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Topic 1: In the News

Articles: General

• Psychiatric Treatment Needs Doctor's Care, Honolulu Advertiser
  http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Jan/31/op/FP701310349.html
• Practicing in Rural America Often a Juggling Act, Psychiatric News
  http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/42/10/9
• Health Centers Offer Safety Net, but Rising Demand a Strain, USA Today
  http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-07-17-health-main_N.htm
• Health Care Cost and Challenge Persists, Center for Studying Health System and Change http://www.hschange.org/CONTENT/947/

Articles: Primary Care Collaborations and Training Projects

• Dartmouth Project Aims to Boost Child Psychiatry Skills in State
  http://www.nhpr.org/node/13941
• Mental Health Teams Give Pediatricians a 2d Opinion, Boston Globe
  http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/08/30/mental_health_teams_give_pediatricians_a_2d_opinion/
• Exodus of Male Physicians from Primary Care Drives Shift to Specialty Practice, Center for Studying Health Systems Change
  http://www.hschange.org/CONTENT/934/

Articles: J-1 Visa Waivers

• Shortage of US Doctors Affects Rural U.S., Boston Globe
  http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/diseases/articles/2007/07/21/shortage_of_doctors_affects_rural_us/

Articles: Community Health Centers/Federally Qualified Health Centers

• Health Centers Offer a Safety Net but Rising Demand is a Strain, USA Today
  http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-07-17-health-main_N.htm
• Community Health Centers Flourish but Doctors are Few, Washington Post
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/18/AR2007061801368.html

Articles: Telepsychiatry

• CPT 2008: A Glimpse of the Future of Family Medicine [password required] http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/570369?src=mp&spon=17&uac
• FCC Dedicates $417 Million to Expanding Rural Telehealth Systems     http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/12/17/gvsb1217.htm 

• Rural Health Groups to Get Millions from FCC
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/19/AR2007111901328.html

Websites: General

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Rural Health Initiatives             http://www.samhsa.gov/Federalactionagenda/NFC_execsum.aspx
• The Office of Rural Health Policy http://ruralhealth.hrsa.gov/funding/GrantPrograms.htm.  
• HRSA One Year Targeted Research Program http://ruralhealth.hrsa.gov/policy/policygrants.htm
• HRSA Rural Health Research Centers http://ruralhealth.hrsa.gov/policy/RHRC/rhrccoop.htm
• The National Association of Rural Mental Health                                http://www.narmh.org
• HRSA Rural Health State Offices                                             www.ask.hrsa.gov/detail.cfm?PubID=ORHP00369
• National Rural Recruitment and Retention Network (3RNet)            http://www.3rnet.org/
• Rural Health Research Gateway                               http://www.ruralhealthresearch.org/

Websites: Telemedicine

• University of Kansas Center for Telemedicine:
  http://www2.kumc.edu/telemedicine

Websites: Primary Care and District Branches

• ICARE Partnership North Carolina Project
  http://www.icarenc.org/
• Children's Mental Health in Primary Care Task Force, American Academy of Pediatrics
  http://www.aap.org/mentalhealth/mh2ch.html