Ronald Schneeweiss, MD

Phone: 206.685.0402
Email: sron@u.washington.edu

WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
University of Washington
Department of Family Medicine
Box 354696
Seattle, WA 91895-4696

Completed Projects - (1)

Physician Residency Rural Training Baseline Study
Research center: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Topics: Physicians, Workforce

Accounting for Graduate Medical Education Funding in Family Practice Training
Journal Article
WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Date: 10/2002
Medicare provides the majority of funding to support graduate medical education (GME). Following the flow of these funds from hospitals to training programs is an important step in accounting for GME funding.
Family Medicine Residency Training in Rural Areas: How Much Is Taking Place, and Is It Enough to Prepare a Future Generation of Rural Family Physicians?
WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Date: 03/2002
This paper examines how much rural family practice training is taking place in the United States. The report concludes that to the extent that there is a link between the place of training and future practice, the lack of rural training contributes to the shortage of rural physicians.

Rural and Urban Physicians: Does the Content of Their Medicare Practices Differ?
Journal Article
WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Date: 1999
Rural and urban areas have significant differences in the availability of medical technology, medical practice structures and patient populations. This study uses 1994 Medicare claims data to examine whether these differences are associated with variation in the content of practice between physicians practicing in rural and urban areas.