Description
The delivery of quality medical care in health systems with varying degrees resources is the focus of curriculum for the Rural and Wilderness Track. In order to produce physicians who are ready to take on the challenge of practice in the rural and remote regions of our country will require extra training and experience not achieved in a standard medical school curriculum. Participants will be given a robust extracurricular education of procedural skills in medicine and surgery that are vital for successful rural practice. They will study and visit some of the varied systems of practice that exist in the rural and remote areas of Colorado. Diagnosis and treatment of injuries that are common to rural and wilderness areas will be reviewed, and will be taught by physicians with specific expertise in those areas.
Physicians practicing in a rural or wilderness setting must be skilled in stabilizing as well as transporting critical patients to urban medical centers. Members of the