MONROE - A recent grant by the Department of Health Services will fund Monroe Clinic's expansion of their rural family medicine residency program. The $310,000 grant will allow the program to expand from its current six residents to eight residents.
Physician recruitment becomes increasingly difficult as the need for physicians exceeds the number of doctors being trained.
The program is designed to close the gap between the needs in rural communities and the number of doctors choosing to serve rural communities.
The grant will help offset salary, faculty and other education-related expenses that the new positions require, enabling Monroe Clinic to introduce a new generation of family physicians to the benefits of a family medicine practice in a rural setting, where they can foster a long-term partnership with their patients.
Monroe Clinic officially became a teaching hospital in 2015 with the introduction of the residency program, made possible by a partnership with the University of Illinois in Rockford.
The program is the first rural training path in the country accredited by the American Osteopathic Association.
For more information about Monroe Clinic's rural family medicine residency program, visit monroeclinic.org.
Physician recruitment becomes increasingly difficult as the need for physicians exceeds the number of doctors being trained.
The program is designed to close the gap between the needs in rural communities and the number of doctors choosing to serve rural communities.
The grant will help offset salary, faculty and other education-related expenses that the new positions require, enabling Monroe Clinic to introduce a new generation of family physicians to the benefits of a family medicine practice in a rural setting, where they can foster a long-term partnership with their patients.
Monroe Clinic officially became a teaching hospital in 2015 with the introduction of the residency program, made possible by a partnership with the University of Illinois in Rockford.
The program is the first rural training path in the country accredited by the American Osteopathic Association.
For more information about Monroe Clinic's rural family medicine residency program, visit monroeclinic.org.