UW medical school alumni who had trained as medical students in rural areas were almost twice as likely to set up their practices in a rural location, a new UW Medicine led study has found. The study was published this month in the Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
“This study provides a promising connection between the RUOP program and the medical graduates’ decision to work in rural areas”, said lead author Arati Dahal, a researcher with Center for Health Workforce Studies and the Department of Family Medicine at the UW School of Medicine.
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