"Watching all of these amazing providers work tirelessly-not only to care for their patients, but to make sure they feel heard and taken seriously-really blew me away,"
"Everyone was so collaborative and motivated to take care of their own community."
"The main thing that convinced us was the magnitude of the problem,"
"In many of the places where we've opened schools, we've found that rural health indicators are poor."
A rural clinic in Covelo on a Native American reservation serves as a model to keep patients and aspiring providers rooted in their community. Touro University places medical and dental students in extended clinical rotations and opens satellite colleges in California and New Mexico to build clinics and workforce pipelines focused on rural retention. Students encounter long travel distances to hospitals, systemic inequities, and barriers that affect care seeking and delivery. Providers collaborate closely to ensure patients feel heard and to address local needs. Institutional leaders cite poor rural health indicators and workforce shortages as the impetus for these investments.
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