RMED Program Featured in Online Article

“The University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford is aiming to build its rural medical workforce with an education program specifically on rural medicine, which supplements the standard medical school curriculum. That program began with a cohort of four in 1993 and has since graduated nearly 500 physicians. So far, 75 percent of Rural Medical Education program graduates have gone on to serve in towns with fewer than 20,000 people, and they’re almost 10 times more likely than the university’s other graduates to practice in communities experiencing a shortage of primary care.”