Urgent shortages in Minnesota’s health care workforce are looming across the state as the Minnesota Department of Health reports one in three rural physicians plan to leave the workforce within the next five years. Similar trends are noted for nurses, emergency medical services and mental health providers.
During a Board of Regents Special Committee on Academic Health meeting next week, U of M leaders will highlight existing pathways and new investments in educating the future health care workforce for Greater Minnesota and Indigenous communities. The discussion will focus on strategic health care education initiatives and partnerships based in Duluth, other Greater Minnesota communities and Tribal Nations. They are examples of the powerful impact that is possible at the U of M — one of America’s leading research universities and also one of the country’s most comprehensive in its health sciences campuses, schools and programs.