Medical School Hopes to Increase Rural Healthcare Workforce by Embedding Into a Community

Medical School Hopes to Increase Rural Healthcare Workforce by Embedding Into a Community

A new rural medical school in the upper Midwest is trying a different approach to increasing the rural healthcare workforce – instead of asking rural students to come to urban communities to learn rural healthcare, they’ve brought the medical school to the rural community. The University of Minnesota Medical School launched its new regional campus in St. Cloud, Minnesota, to address Minnesota’s shortage of rural physicians. Formally the Universi…