Registration deadline for Rural Health Journalism Workshop is May 28; free with AHCJ membership

The Association of Health Care Journalists has scheduled its seventh annual Rural Health Journalism Workshop for June 6 in Portland, Oregon. The free workshop, which is only open to members who pay the yearly $60 membership fee, will focus on covering health stories in rural America.

Topics include: The rural health landscape: Meeting the people, meeting the challenges; Telemedicine: Technology triumphs and regulation challenges; The aging of rural physicians and the next generation of care; How the ACA impacts rural health care; and Poor oral health: What's the cost?

The workshop, hosted by Oregon Health & Science University and sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Missouri Foundation for Health, will run from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the DoubleTree by Hilton and will include lunch and dinner. Some travel assistance is available. The deadline to register is May 28. For more information or to register click here.