Joint Program Aimed at Increasing Rural Doctors Getting Ready for Another Year of Education
Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 -- 7:41 AM
(WRN) -A joint program aimed at increasing the number of rural doctors in Wisconsin is getting ready for another year of education.The Wisconsin Academy of Rural Medicine is gearing up for another year of training doctors. Director Dr. Joseph Holt says 29 percent of Wisconsin's population is rural, leading to a wide mismatch of medical coverage.
"Ten percent of doctors are in rural areas. So there's a significant mismatch, which the WARM program is trying to impact."
Dr. Holt says they have an extremely good placement rate.
"We graduate 26 students per year and a little bit more than half of that number end up practicing rural medicine, in some form, in Wisconsin."
Dr. Holt says the Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine program has worked to place doctors in rural Wisconsin each year.
"We create about 50 percent of our graduates as rural physicians. And it's about four or five times the rate of any normal university medical school program."
That far outpaces more traditional training programs. Doctors get their residency and training in Marshfield, Green Bay and La Crosse.
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