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Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program

R/UOP is a four-week, elective immersion experience in community medicine for students between their first and second years of medical school. Students apply for this 4-week elective clinical immersion experience in the early spring and are assigned regional placement with doctors according to availability and student request ranking. In Idaho the placements are assigned by the UI WWAMI office. R/UOP provides students an opportunity to work side-by-side with a physician preceptor, providing care to either rural or urban underserved populations. Students are provided a stipend and support for transportation and housing to RUOP sites throughout the five-state WWAMI area.

Program Goals

• Provide students with an early exposure to the challenges and rewards of practicing primary care medicine in a rural or urban underserved setting.
• Promote in students a positive attitude toward rural and urban underserved community medicine.
• Provide students with an opportunity to learn how community health care systems function.

More information on RUOP can be found at:

http://depts.washington.edu/fammed/predoc/programs/ruop