Description
Students enrolled in the Wilderness and Rural Track are required to complete a 16 week integrated rural block. The integrated rural block is designed to expose students to the broad spectrum of rural medicine in a rural location. Students will be immersed in a rural setting for 16 weeks. Primary care or full-scope family medicine is the underlying theme throughout the rotation. Family medicine is an essential component of the primary care infrastructure of the US health care delivery system. Students learn the fundamentals of an approach to the evaluation and management of frequently occurring, complex, concurrent, and ill-defined problems across a wide variety of acute and chronic presentations in rural communities. Students will then choose from one or two additional specialties (Internal Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Emergency Medicine) to round out their 4 month block.