Initiative administrative and education support - university of Colorado school of medicine rural program

(1) The rural program office shall provide assistance to the institutions establishing and operating a rural track. The rural program office shall: (a) Provide guidance to an institution regarding recruiting and admitting students committed to working in rural areas; (b) Assist an institution with identifying rural or frontier counties in which students may accomplish their clinical training and establishing relationships between students and health-care professionals in rural or frontier counties who can serve as preceptors; (c) Facilitate, arrange, or advise an institution about arranging housing for students receiving clinical instruction and training in a rural or frontier county; (d) Develop, in collaboration with institutions that operate a rural track, didactic curriculum related to practicing in rural or frontier counties and provide the curriculum without charge to each institution that operates a rural track; and (e) Provide any other technical or administrative assistance that may benefit an institution that is establishing or operating a rural track. (2) (a) The rural program office shall develop metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of the initiative and rural tracks, annually evaluate the initiative and rural tracks, and create the report described in section 23-76.5-104. (b) The rural program office may collaborate with the Colorado area health education centers, the department of public health and environment, a statewide organization of hospitals, and the Colorado rural health center to assess unmet rural community health-care priority needs, collect data to support the assessment, and make recommendations to the general assembly for funding to support adding more schools, programs, and health-care professionals to meet that need. The rural program office may include the recommendations in its annual report.