The TRUST Continuum
TRUST's primary goal is to foster and prepare selected medical students for rural practice. This diagram illustrates how the TRUST curriculum is a continuum, selecting students from, training them in, and returning them to the appropriate communities. Move your mouse over each phase of the curriculum for more information.
A PDF version of this information is also available: Overall TRUST Curriculum Handout
Rural/Underserved Continuity Communities
TRUST aspires to take students from rural or underserved communities, nurture a connection and return the physician back for practice.
Admissions
Students apply to the UWSOM and are admitted as TRUST Scholars via a separate admissions process.
TRUST First Summer Experience
Rural/Underserved Continuity
Community Experience (7-14 days)
Underserved Pathway
Year One
Continuity Community Visits
Underserved Pathway
Rural Health Course 1
Summer After Year One
Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program - RUOP
(4 weeks)
Continue Continuity Community Linkages
Continuity Community Oriented
Scholarly Project
Year Two
Continue Continuity Community Linkages
Underserved Pathway
Rural Health Course 2
Year Three
Conintue Continuity Community Linkages
Underserved Pathway
WWAMI Rural Integrated Training
Experience - WRITE
(16 weeks + 4 weeks elective)
Year Four
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Underserved Pathway
Rural Clinical Elective
Residency Linkages
Residency
TRUST graduates choose Primary Care residency programs or selected specialties that practice in rural or underserved settings.
TRUST works to develop close connections with regional residency programs.
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