The October 2022 newsletter will include 2022 Rural Champion, Faculty Development Conference/Spotlight on Rural Poste Fair, A Day in the Life of a Rural Resident, GME Leadership Academy, Grants & Funding, Medicine: The Rural Point of View, Ashland visit, and the Midwestern University visit.

Our second "A Day in the Life of a Rural Resident" video is out now! This video featured Kane Laks, MD, PGY-3, UW Madison Family Medicine Residency, Rural Health Equity Track (RHET)

Thank you again Spoken Frame Media for all your hard work!

WiNC, WCRMGE, and MCW are pleased to present the Rural GME Leadership Academy Series 2 – a training opportunity for experienced, new, and upcoming rural faculty preceptors or residents engaged in medical education. Registration information will be coming soon!

Dates: January – July, 2023

(Series dates and agenda listed below)

Program Description:

The Rural GME Leadership Academy SERIES 2  will continue your development as a rural GME physician leader by building upon the foundation of your 101 participation (or similar experience), advance your rural GME leadership abilities and identity, and expand your ability to influence the culture of rural GME in your institution and the communities you serve.

The HRSA Rural Residency Planning & Development (RRPD) Program is live on grants.gov and will be accepting applications through January 27, 2023. Up to 15 grants will be awarded to support development of Rural GME in family medicine, internal medicine, psychiatry, general surgery, preventive medicine, or obstetrics and gynecology.

Our schedule for the 2022-2023 Medicine: The Rural Point of View series is out now!

Medicine: The Rural Point of View is a new project for medical students that was launched in 2020 which is designed to increase the awareness and interest of medical students to consider training and then practicing rural medicine.

Zoom Information:

Join Zoom Meeting: https://rwhc.zoom.us/j/84014570301pwd=RmgrNzhrcFZxVzVBTnUvSWZCbUNiUT09

Meeting ID: 840 1457 0301

Passcode: 2022

Attend a presentation and enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card!

*For more information about this series including the series dates, visit our website: wcrgme.org/medicine-the-rural-point-of-view

Recently, Jennifer and Lori visited Memorial Medical Center in Ashland to further discuss their Emergency Medicine Fellowship. During their visit, they got the chance to hike at Copper Falls State Park. Thanks for hosting us Mark and Patti!

For more information about the Emergency Medicine Fellowship in Ashland, visit their website: ashlandmmc.com/emergencyfellowship/

Recently, WCRGME and Monroe Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program visited Midwestern University to talk with M2s. At their visit, they spoke to 85 M2s !

L to R: John Dube, DO, Lori Rodefeld, CJ Smith, DO, Jennifer Crubel