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Rural recruitment key to solving rural physician shortage – The WWAMI Program / The University of Montana’s Medical Residency Program
When the time came, KayCee Gardner packed up her family’s horse trailer and pulled an apartment’s worth of belongings into Seattle. Unprepared for the narrow city streets, Gardner found herself backing the trailer out of a tight squeeze, trying to find a path wide enough to pass.
KayCee Gardner is from Broadus, Montana, where it’s not unusual for a horse trailer to double as a moving van.
It was the beginning of Gardner’s medical training at the University of Washington with the WWAMI program. The aim of the program, accessible to medical students from Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho, is to create a pipeline of physicians to underserved communities by recruiting directly from those underserved areas.
University of Montana’s Medical Residency Placement in Rural Areas Ranks High
The University of Montana’s Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana was recently ranked second in the nation among surveyed residency programs for graduating the most family physicians that go into rural practice.
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