The WWAMI Targeted Rural Underserved Track (TRUST) Program: An Innovative Response to Rural Physician Workforce Shortages

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Discusses a four-year medical education curriculum through the University of Washington School of Medicine called the Targeted Rural Underserved Track (TRUST) where students are required to participate in a four-year clinical longitudinal continuity experience. The curriculum links students to a rural community identified as their TRUST continuity community or TCC with the objective to engage students in learning how a healthcare team functions in a rural community and to address the physician workforce needs in rural Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho (WWAMI region).

Thomas Greer, Amanda Kost, David V. Evans, et al.

Academic Medicine, 91(1), 65-69

01/2016

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Graduate medical education · Health workforce supply and demand · Physicians · Statistics and data · Alaska · Idaho · Montana · Washington · Wyoming