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qualifications: MD
position: Chair
department: Family and Community Medicine
United States
Professor and Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences. 2017 President, National Rural Health Association. Family physician with research interests in medical education, workforce studies and rural health care.
Articles contributed to by this person
Original Research 18 March 2024
Understanding rural pharmacists’ perspectives: lived experiences and insights associated with rural recruitment and retention
Original Research 29 November 2022
The Pharmacy Community Apgar Questionnaire: a modified Delphi technique to develop a rural pharmacist recruitment and retention tool
Original Research 9 August 2018
Lived experiences and insights into the advantages important to rural recruitment and retention of general practitioners
Rural Health History 25 March 2017
Building a community of practice in rural medical education: growing our own together
Original Research 25 November 2016
Community assets and capabilities to recruit and retain GPs: the Community Apgar Questionnaire in rural Victoria
Original Research 4 March 2014
Development of the Nursing Community Apgar Questionnaire (NCAQ): a rural nurse recruitment and retention tool
Original Research 24 December 2012
Assessing Community Health Center (CHC) assets and capabilities for recruiting physicians: the CHC Community Apgar Questionnaire
Original Research 25 July 2011
Idaho Rural Family Physician Workforce Study: the Community Apgar Questionnaire
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