Indiana’s Health Workforce Council is exploring an approach to strengthen rural health care training: a tax credit for health care providers who mentor students through clinical preceptorships. Bowen Center Director Dr. Hannah Maxey was recently quoted in IPB News discussing the possible tax credit program for health care mentors.
“It is critically important for states that are developing tax credit programs to clearly define the program, goals and metrics before and prior to developing it,” Maxey notes. Her research indicates these programs typically serve better as retention tools for existing clinical preceptors rather than recruiting new ones.
Want to learn more about Maxey’s insights on program design, retention impacts, and fiscal considerations? Read the full story at IPB News.
The Bowen Center recently published a policy brief on exactly this subject, read more here or in the brief below: