John R Wheat
Biographic Data
| ID | 5547488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John R Wheat |
| GIVEN NAMES | John R |
| FAMILY NAME | Wheat |
| SIGNATURE | WHEAT J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8511-7168 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Medical education for African American communities in the rural South
PURPOSE: We sought to understand concerns fundamental to planning medical education specific to rural southern African Americans who are virtually nonexistent in American medical schools. METHODS: A diverse multidisciplinary research team conducted this qualitative study with 3 focus groups, including 17 rural medical educators recruited nationwide, 10 African American alumni of a rural medical education pipeline in Alabama, and 5 community and i…
Pipeline Programs Can Support Reforms in Medical Education
Purpose To demonstrate for county leaders the utility of rural pipelines to gain physicians and produce health professionals. Methods This cohort study, 1993‐2018, aggregated 1,051 students in the Rural Health Leaders Pipeline to their home counties (N = 67) to study the relationship between county participation in pipeline programs and outcomes of family physicians gained and health professionals produced. Additional county demographics were inc…
Educating Physicians for Rural America
PURPOSE: To evaluate the Rural Medical Scholars (RMS) Program's effectiveness to produce rural physicians for Alabama. METHODS: A nonrandomized intervention study compared RMS (1997-2002) with control groups in usual medical education (1991-2002) at the University of Alabama School of Medicine's main and regional campuses. Participants were RMS and others admitted to regular medical education, and the intervention was the RMS Program. Measures as…
Medical Education to Improve Rural Population Health
PURPOSE: To provide evidence that medical education is associated with population health in order to support adaptation of medical school programs to address populations with health disparities. We explored medical education efforts, local physician supply, and life expectancy in Alabama. METHODS: County-level public data of the number of students accepted to medical schools in 2008 and 2011, primary care physicians, life expectancy, and demograp…
Admission Factors Predicting Family Medicine Specialty Choice
Purpose: The Rural Medical Scholars Program (RMSP) was created to increase production of rural family physicians in Alabama. Literature review reveals reasons medical students choose careers in family medicine, and these reasons can be categorized into domains that medical schools can address through admission, curriculum, and structural interventions. We examine whether admission factors can predict family medicine specialty choice among student…
Farmers’ Concerns
Context: Limited research suggests that translational approaches are needed to decrease the distance, physical and cultural, between farmers and health care. Purpose: This study seeks to identify special concerns of farmers in Alabama and explore the need for a medical education program tailored to prepare physicians to address those concerns. Methods: We conducted 2 focus groups with 20 farmers from diverse communities, backgrounds, and farming …
Undergraduate Rural Medical Education Program Development
CONTEXT: Over a decade ago, leaders in rural medical education established the Rural Medical Educators (RME) Group, an interest group within the National Rural Health Association, to support faculty in rural medical education programs. This group has convened an annual RME conclave since 2006. In 2008, this conclave convened 15 national leaders in rural medical education at The University of Alabama. METHODS: In preparation for the conclave, pote…
Physicians for Rural America
CONTEXT: Prior study suggests that contextual characteristics of medical schools (e.g., state demographics, public vs private, NIH research effort) predict output of rural physicians without also considering the effects of the medical schools' own policies and programs. PURPOSE: This study examines medical school commitment to rural policies and programs and its relationship to contextual characteristics and rural physician output. METHODS: A sur…
Premedical Education
Context: Small local colleges may be sources of medical students with the gender, ethnicity, and background that promote identity with and empathy for underserved populations. Purpose: This study examined the impact of attendance at these premedical colleges on outcomes of medical education. Methods: Data for 2508 matriculates to the University of Alabama School of Medicine, a state‐supported medical school, were examined according to premedical …
The Southern Rural Access Program and Alabama's Rural Health Leaders Pipeline
Rural Health Leaders Pipeline programs are intended to increase the number of youth interested in and pursuing health professions in rural communities. This paper presents 2 complementary approaches to Rural Health Leaders Pipeline programs. Two different organizations in Alabama recruit students from 18 specified counties. One organization is a rural, community‐based program with college freshmen and upperclassmen from rural communities. Student…
Strategy to Increase Agricultural Medicine Practice
Across the nation, farmers, farmworkers and their families experience an increased risk of death, illness and disability. A major concern is to determine how medical education and the medical profession can realize their potential to benefit the agricultural community. This exploratory study was completed to identify factors that might predict interest in practice of agricultural medicine among primary care physicians. Two hundred seventy‐eight A…
Response from Schwartzbaum, et al
Response from Schwartzbaum, et al Judith A. Schwartzbaum, John R. Wheat, and Robert W. Norton T M VernonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.81.7.932-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Physician breach of patient confidentiality among individuals with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
To determine whether the sex, race, or sexual preference of a patient infected with immunodeficiency virus (HIV) influences a physician's decision to breach patient confidentiality, Tennessee primary care physicians were mailed a questionnaire containing a case study in which an HIV-infected patient presented a risk to a third party. Eight different descriptions of the sex, race, and sexual preference of the hypothetical patient were distributed …
Patterns of Utilization
From the Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 †Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, Departments of General Medicine and Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514
Physician breach of patient confidentiality among individuals with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
To determine whether the sex, race, or sexual preference of a patient infected with immunodeficiency virus (HIV) influences a physician's decision to breach patient confidentiality, Tennessee primary care physicians were mailed a questionnaire containing a case study in which an HIV-infected patient presented a risk to a third party. Eight different descriptions of the sex, race, and sexual preference of the hypothetical patient were distributed …
Patterns of Utilization
From the Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 †Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar, Departments of General Medicine and Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514
Physician breach of patient confidentiality among individuals with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
To determine whether the sex, race, or sexual preference of a patient infected with immunodeficiency virus (HIV) influences a physician's decision to breach patient confidentiality, Tennessee primary care physicians were mailed a questionnaire containing a case study in which an HIV-infected patient presented a risk to a third party. Eight different descriptions of the sex, race, and sexual preference of the hypothetical patient were distributed …
Response from Schwartzbaum, et al
Response from Schwartzbaum, et al Judith A. Schwartzbaum, John R. Wheat, and Robert W. Norton T M VernonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.81.7.932-a Published Online: October 07, 2011
Strategy to Increase Agricultural Medicine Practice
Across the nation, farmers, farmworkers and their families experience an increased risk of death, illness and disability. A major concern is to determine how medical education and the medical profession can realize their potential to benefit the agricultural community. This exploratory study was completed to identify factors that might predict interest in practice of agricultural medicine among primary care physicians. Two hundred seventy‐eight A…
Premedical Education
Context: Small local colleges may be sources of medical students with the gender, ethnicity, and background that promote identity with and empathy for underserved populations. Purpose: This study examined the impact of attendance at these premedical colleges on outcomes of medical education. Methods: Data for 2508 matriculates to the University of Alabama School of Medicine, a state‐supported medical school, were examined according to premedical …
The Southern Rural Access Program and Alabama's Rural Health Leaders Pipeline
Rural Health Leaders Pipeline programs are intended to increase the number of youth interested in and pursuing health professions in rural communities. This paper presents 2 complementary approaches to Rural Health Leaders Pipeline programs. Two different organizations in Alabama recruit students from 18 specified counties. One organization is a rural, community‐based program with college freshmen and upperclassmen from rural communities. Student…
Physicians for Rural America
CONTEXT: Prior study suggests that contextual characteristics of medical schools (e.g., state demographics, public vs private, NIH research effort) predict output of rural physicians without also considering the effects of the medical schools' own policies and programs. PURPOSE: This study examines medical school commitment to rural policies and programs and its relationship to contextual characteristics and rural physician output. METHODS: A sur…
Undergraduate Rural Medical Education Program Development
CONTEXT: Over a decade ago, leaders in rural medical education established the Rural Medical Educators (RME) Group, an interest group within the National Rural Health Association, to support faculty in rural medical education programs. This group has convened an annual RME conclave since 2006. In 2008, this conclave convened 15 national leaders in rural medical education at The University of Alabama. METHODS: In preparation for the conclave, pote…
Admission Factors Predicting Family Medicine Specialty Choice
Purpose: The Rural Medical Scholars Program (RMSP) was created to increase production of rural family physicians in Alabama. Literature review reveals reasons medical students choose careers in family medicine, and these reasons can be categorized into domains that medical schools can address through admission, curriculum, and structural interventions. We examine whether admission factors can predict family medicine specialty choice among student…
Farmers’ Concerns
Context: Limited research suggests that translational approaches are needed to decrease the distance, physical and cultural, between farmers and health care. Purpose: This study seeks to identify special concerns of farmers in Alabama and explore the need for a medical education program tailored to prepare physicians to address those concerns. Methods: We conducted 2 focus groups with 20 farmers from diverse communities, backgrounds, and farming …
Medical Education to Improve Rural Population Health
PURPOSE: To provide evidence that medical education is associated with population health in order to support adaptation of medical school programs to address populations with health disparities. We explored medical education efforts, local physician supply, and life expectancy in Alabama. METHODS: County-level public data of the number of students accepted to medical schools in 2008 and 2011, primary care physicians, life expectancy, and demograp…
Educating Physicians for Rural America
PURPOSE: To evaluate the Rural Medical Scholars (RMS) Program's effectiveness to produce rural physicians for Alabama. METHODS: A nonrandomized intervention study compared RMS (1997-2002) with control groups in usual medical education (1991-2002) at the University of Alabama School of Medicine's main and regional campuses. Participants were RMS and others admitted to regular medical education, and the intervention was the RMS Program. Measures as…
Pipeline Programs Can Support Reforms in Medical Education
Purpose To demonstrate for county leaders the utility of rural pipelines to gain physicians and produce health professionals. Methods This cohort study, 1993‐2018, aggregated 1,051 students in the Rural Health Leaders Pipeline to their home counties (N = 67) to study the relationship between county participation in pipeline programs and outcomes of family physicians gained and health professionals produced. Additional county demographics were inc…
Medical education for African American communities in the rural South
PURPOSE: We sought to understand concerns fundamental to planning medical education specific to rural southern African Americans who are virtually nonexistent in American medical schools. METHODS: A diverse multidisciplinary research team conducted this qualitative study with 3 focus groups, including 17 rural medical educators recruited nationwide, 10 African American alumni of a rural medical education pipeline in Alabama, and 5 community and i…
Medicine (14 works) · Global Health Workforce Issues (11 works) · Medical education (9 works) · Family medicine (8 works) · Medical Education and Admissions (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Innovations in Medical Education (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)