Doctors who had trained as medical students in rural areas were almost twice as likely to set up their practices in a rural location, researchers say.
offers medical students a four-week rotation in rural areas of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Idaho and Montana.
Working alongside a primary-care physician, students participate between the first and second year of medical school to get an early introduction to rural health care. The study tracked 994 of 1,172 UW School of Medicine alumni who graduated between 2009 and 2014 and found that among 570 participants in the rural training program, 111 went on to establish their practices in rural communities.Trinell Newby and Meagan Johnson, who are both still in med school, told Axios their participation in the program solidified their desire to serve rural communities.
Physicians had to navigate around unique clinical settings, such as imaging studies that are available only one day a week or figuring out how to get someone who has no electricity or running water home safely, said Newby. Newby spent about eight months during her first two years of med school working in Pend Oreille County, which is rankedShe also noted the way primary care doctors stepped up to provide addiction care or gender-affirming care where access is limited."I learned how to work with limited resources and to collaborate with others to ensure patients received the care they needed," Johnson, who worked in Central and Eastern Washington, told Axios.
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