Explore, Employ, Empower: The Robert A. Ingram Institute for Healthcare Access
North Carolina’s rural health care shortage demands innovative workforce solutions. The Robert A. Ingram Institute for Healthcare Access created a collaborative model emphasizing exploration, employment, and empowerment through pre-health exposure, rural clinical training, and return-to-practice pathways, strengthening workforce development, retention, and access via academic-practice partnerships in rural communities statewide.
Authors
- Meg Zomorodi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7394-8917)
- Tiffani Cain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2448-9901)
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- University of North Carolina Health Care (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- North Carolina Medical Journal
- Published
- 2026-06-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.18043/001c.163029
- Primary Topic
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00