Office of Rural Medical Education

Preceptor Resources Opportunities for Students Rural Medical Education Network

2007

In 2007, we established the Office of Rural Medical Education.

2011

We founded the Salina campus for rural medicine practice.

39.8

The rural patient-to-physician ratio is 39.8 physicians/100,000 people.

The roots of our work trace back more than 70 years, with an innovative, state-wide initiative called Rural Health Program for Kansas that aimed to alleviate the critical shortage of physicians plaguing many rural Kansas communities.

Rx for Rural Health