EXCERPT: “A group of first-year medical students at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in Rochester has been learning directly from Minnesota Farm Bureau members about how to connect with and meet the needs of people living in rural communities. The education around rural healthcare, called the Rural Medicine Initiative, is offered through the medical school in partnership with the Minnesota Foundation for Agriculture and the Zumbro Valley Medical Society. The partnership comes at a time when the U.S. is facing a critical shortage of primary care physicians in rural areas. While overall medical school positions increased by more than 30% from 2002 to 2017, the number of medical students from rural backgrounds decreased by 28%, so they made up only 4.3% of the incoming medical student body in 2017, according to a study published in Health Affairs.” FULL STORY: https://fluence-media.co/4iuIa3f
