Summer Rural Program

The Rural Primary Care Practice and Research Program is a University of Kansas Medical Center Department of Family medicine sponsored elective rotation for medical students. It involves active clinical training as well as health promotion and disease prevention research in rural primary care settings in cities and towns across the state of Kansas. The summer of 2007 marked the fiftieth consecutive Medical Center Department of Family Medicine. The program placed nineteen medical students at rural Kansas sites dispersed across the entire state. Students spent an initial week of clinical orientation and research training at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City. They then spent the next six weeks working with primary also contributed to the Healthy Living Tablet Computer Colorectal Cancer Screening Project. The students reported another outstanding educational summer.