- Friday, October 16, from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
- Saturday, October 17, from 10:00 a.m. – Noon and 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Although the pandemic will be addressed, this year’s theme, Making Population Health for Rural Communities Personal,” will include personalizing population health messages, taking public health messages personally, and taking personal responsibility for the health of the community you are serving.
Any student with interest in rural generalist practice – whether family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, pediatrics, women’s health, surgery, public health, or research – is strongly encouraged to apply for the Rural Health Scholars Program.
The purpose of the program is to foster interest among medical students in a career in rural practice and to prepare them for a leadership role in restoring health to the rural communities in which they will someday live. Students from any level of medical school training and from any Ohio medical school are welcome.
- Better integrate the care of individual patients into caring for a community
- Discuss the principles of public health messaging
- Personalize public and population health messages for my rural practice
- Take personal responsibility for the health of the community you are serving
- Connect with other students with an interest in preparing for generalist rural practice.
- A one-year student membership in the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) and its Student Constituency Group, with all the attendant benefits
- An opportunity for two selected students to attend Rural Health Policy Institute in Washington, DC, Tuesday-Thursday, February 9-11, 2021, and two students to attend the NRHA Annual Meeting and Rural Medical Educators preconference in New Orleans, LA, Tuesday-Friday, May 4-7, 2021. The total travel and meeting stipend this year is $750 per student and may be supplemented with other scholarships, including scholarships from the NRHA.
All program expenses are provided courtesy of The Ohio State University Department of Family Medicine and its Rural Fund, the Dr. J. Martin Byers Jr. Memorial Endowment Fund, and the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.
For additional information or clarification, please send an email to Dawn Mollica and copy Randall Longenecker, MD, with “Rural Health Scholars Retreat” in the subject line. The deadline for applications is Monday, October 5.