Students Get Intensive Rural Health Training
This past year, eight UW medical students obtained five months of clinical training in small rural towns as part of the WWAMI Rural Integrated Training Experience (WRITE) program. The program is entering its ninth year.
The WRITE program enables a medical student to spend several months getting to know a rural community, the local physicians, and the physicians' patients. Unlike clinical rotations that divide along specialty lines, the WRITE rotation exposes a student to the diversity of rural practice. The training incorporates internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, surgery, psychiatry, obstetrics/gynecology, and other fields.
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On his last day as a student in the 2004 WRITE program in McCall, Idaho, UW medical student Brian M. Johnson examines a five-month old baby. He helped deliver this baby on his first day in the McCall WRITE program.