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AAMC AHEAD

The AAMC Accelerating Health Equity, Advancing through Discovery (AHEAD) initiative seeks to identify, evaluate, and disseminate effective and replicable AAMC-member institution practices that improve community health and reduce health inequities.
Learn about AAMC medical research initiatives and publications.
More Resources
Below you can find more resources for each of the projects in the Virtual Site Visit:
The Frontier and Rural Medicine Program (FARM)
Website:
FARM Brochure:
FARM Bibliography
Peer-reviewed publications:
Jensen B. Anderson S. Simanton E. The Impact of a Rural Training Track on Medical Students’ Specialty Choice. South Dakota Medicine, June 2017.
Ludvik J. Anderson S. Huntington M. Epidemiologic study of bacteria zoonotic diseases in South Dakota: 2010-2014. South Dakota Medicine, June 2017.
Schafer N. Anderson S. Health Education in Rural South Dakota – Abstract. South Dakota Medicine, 2015, 68, (9).
Vogt HB, Simanton EG, Bien MN, Anderson, S. Student perceptions of their value to patient care. South Dakota Medicine, September 2014, Volume 67, Number 9
Simanton E., Vogt H.B., Anderson S. Extenuating Circumstances: Student Selection of Case Presentations for a Required Rural Family Medicine Clerkship. South Dakota Medicine, December 2013.
Anderson S., Vogt H.B. Editorial, Hedging the Bet – Reflections on Betting the Farm. South Dakota Medicine, October 2013.
Non-print/Online materials:
Anderson S. Simanton E. Correlations between Community Size and Student Perceptions of Value. Remote and Rural Health, July 27, 2017.
- Hearns V. Anderson S. Harmelink L. Education Column: Frontier And Rural Medicine: Cultivating a Rural Healthcare Workforce. STFM Messenger 2015, December.
Non-peer-reviewed publications:
Hearns V, Anderson S, Wallenburg B, Kozmenko V, Harmelink L, Bertsch K, Parham E. FARM (Frontier And Rural Medicine) Long Distance Clinical Skills Assessment in a Rural Setting via TeleOSCE, MedEdPORTAL’s iCollaborative, 2015.
Increasing opportunities for Native Americans to enter health care
Website:
Diversity Bibliography
Publications:
Notable Native American Physician Speaks on USD Campus, South Dakotan M.D., Spring/Summer, 22-23, 2017
Addiction Studies Program Inspires and Motivates, South Dakotan Health, 10-11, 2015
Students Examine Career Opportunities in Health Care at USD Camp, South Dakotan M.D., Fall/Winter, 2012
G.J. Yutrzenka, L. H. Amundson. USDSM Alumni Student Scholars Program: Successes of the First Decade. South Dakota Journal of Medicine 57(11):491-498, 2004.
- G.J. Yutrzenka, USD School of Medicine Education Efforts to Address Native American Health Care in South Dakota, Proceedings, First International Conference on Race: Racial Reconciliation, 2003 www.olemiss.edu/winterinstitute
Boles A.L, G.J. Yutrzenka, D.A. Peterson, L. Kilawee. Lifestyle Satisfaction of Rural, South Dakota, Family Practice Physicians. South Dakota Journal of Medicine 53(6):235-240, 2000
Health Equity Research and Programs
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Bibliography
Publications:
- Brockevelt, B.L., Newland, L.A., Cerny, S.L., & Lawler, M.J. (2017). Activities within an ecological, relationship-based model of children’s subjective well-being: United States sub-study of the multinational qualitative study. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Feldhacker, D.R, Cerny, S., Brockevelt, B.L., & Lawler, M.J. (2017).
Occupations and well-being in children and youth. Manuscript submitted for publication.
- Lawler, M.J., Choi, C., Yoo, J., Lee, J., Roh, S., Newland, L.A., Giger, J.T., Sudhagoni, R., Brockevelt, B.L., & Lee, B.J. (2017). Children’s subjective well-being in rural communities of South Korea and the United States. Manuscript submitted for publication.
- Lawler, M.J., Newland, L.A., Giger, J.T., Roh, S., & Brockevelt, B.L. (2017). Ecological, relationship-based model of children’s subjective well-being: Perspectives of 10-year-old children in the United States and 10 other countries. Child Indicators Research, 10, 1-18.
- Newland, L.A., Giger, J.T., Lawler, M.J., Roh, S., Brockevelt, B.L., & Schweinle, A. (in press). Multilevel analysis of child and adolescent subjective well-being across 14 countries. Child Development.
- Lawler, M.J., Newland, L.A., Giger, J.T., & Roh, S. (2015). Ecological, relationship-based model of 12-year-old children’s subjective well-being in the United States and ten other countries. Journal of Social Research & Policy, 6, 57-70.
- Newland, L., Lawler, M.J., Giger, J.T., Roh, S., & Carr, E.R. (2015). Predictors of children’s subjective well-being in rural communities of the United States. Child Indicators Research, 8, 177-198.
- Newland, L., Giger, J. T., Lawler, M. J., Carr, E. R., Dykstra, E. A., & Roh, S., (2014). Subjective well-being for children in a rural community, Journal of Social Service Research, 40, 642-661.