Educating Physicians for Rural America: Validating Successes and Identifying Remaining Challenges With the Rural Medical Scholars Program

ConclusionsThe RMS Program, contrasted to other local programs of medical education, was effective in producing rural physicians. These results were comparable to benchmark programs in the Northeast and Midwest USA on which the RMS Program was modeled, justifying the assumption that model programs can be replicated in different regions. However, this positive effect was not shared by a disparate rural minority population, suggesting that models for rural medical education must be adjusted to meet the challenge of such communities for physicians.

Source: The Journal of Rural Health - December 31, 2016 Category: Rural Health Authors: John R. Wheat, James D. Leeper, Shannon Murphy, John E. Brandon, James R. Jackson Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research