Lecture Information
12th Annual Clancy A. Holland Lecture
hosted by the Student Family Medicine Association
"The Geography of Rural Medical Education and Training"
Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the current landscape of rural medical education and training using a standard typology
- Identify their own geographic bias along the rural-urban continuum
- Collaborate across contexts in matters of governance and fair resource allocation
Abstract
Our speaker will review basic definitions and shared language, before describing the textured landscape of rural medical education and training in the United States. He will point to adaptations at the rural margins of academic family medicine that demonstrate the power of collaboration. The audience will be challenged to recognize the reality of geographic narcissism, appreciate the value of varying perspectives and contexts, implement distributed governance, and achieve fair resource allocation in pursuit of health for our communities.
Materials
Dr. Longenecker's slides can be found here: Google Drive link
About the Holland Lecture
The annual Clarence “Clancy” Holland lecture is made possible by a generous endowment from an anonymous donor who stipulated that the funds were to support annual lectures on ethical issues in primary care.
Past speakers include department faculty members Dr. Steve Woolf and Dr. Rebecca Etz, as well as, among others, Dr. Wanda Filer (then President of AAFP) and Dr. Norm Oliver, then in office as the Virginia State Health Commissioner.
Dr. Holland, who graduated from Hampden-Sydney College and the Medical College of Virginia, served the Virginia Beach community in many ways – for 53 years as a practicing family physician (retiring in 2013), as the city’s mayor from 1976 to 1978, and as a member of the General Assembly, serving as a State Senator from 1983 to 1995.
He passed away in late 2023, at the age of 94. His legacy of service to his patients, to his community, and to medical education will be felt for generations to come.
As sent in a message from his daughter Beth many years back: Dr. Holland loved Family Practice as it is the most complete care, and he hopes that the students will consider staying in the field.
