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2020-05-15
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Producing Physicians for Rural Kansas
The Early Success of the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Salina Regional Medical Campus
William Cathcart-Rake
University of Kansas School of Medicine-Salina
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24926/jrmc.v3i1.2314
Keywords: Regional Medical Campus, Rural practice, Physician shortage
Abstract
Abstract
Physician workforce shortages in rural areas are well-documented problems. The University of Kansas School of Medicine (KUSM) established the Salina regional medical campus (RMC) in response to the need to train more physicians interested in primary care in rural Kansas. Since its founding in 2011, thirty-eight students have completed their training on the Salina RMC and received their M.D. Twenty-eight graduates (74%) matched in primary care residencies; eighteen (44%) in family medicine. Eleven of the first sixteen graduates have finished residency and entered practice; nine are in Kansas, and seven of those are in rural Kansas. The Salina RMC has had early success in producing primary care physicians to serve rural Kansas.
The author has no conflict of interest to report.
