Page 2 - Sunflower Health Network - Newsletter Winter 2014

Page 2 In the junior year of college, students have the opportunity to apply for the Scholars in Rural Health program. Administered by Dr. K.J. Kallail on our Wichita campus, this highly competitive program is designed to prepare rural Kansas students for a successful education at KUMC. Each student works one‐on‐one with one of the rural doctors across our state‐ sometimes in their hometown – for the In This Issue duration of the program, learning clinical skills and the roles those physicians play in their respective communities. Each student must Community Page accumulate at least 200 hours of time with their community preceptor to satisfy the requirements of the program. Students Community Preceptors Educate in Kansas 1‐4 design and conduct an extensive research project and learn how to Contributed by Lucy Kollhoff and Debra Lea, incorporate an ever increasing amount of new medical knowledge KUMC into future practices. Scholars in Rural Health—KU School of Medicine 4‐5 Med School: Years 1 and 2 Contributed by K. James Kallail, PhD, Every July finds new first year medical students arriving on‐campus Q&A With Drs. Bloesser and Dinkel 5, 28 to begin their journey into a career in medicine. One of the first Memorial Health System, 6‐7 assignments students receive is their community preceptor Abilene assignment. Doctors in communities near the students’ home Family Medicine with OB campuses are recruited to mentor these students in their own Anthony Medical Center, 8‐9 practices. From the very start of their medical education, students Anthony Family Medicine without OB work one‐on‐one with their community preceptor learning clinical skills and experiencing first‐hand the satisfaction of patient care. Mitchell County Hospital Health Systems, 10‐13 KUMC students can’t say enough about the support and the training Beloit Geriatric Psychiatry they receive from their community preceptors. General Surgery Between first and second year of medical school students have the Cloud County Health Center, 14‐17 option to apply for the Summer Rural Research and Practice Concordia Elective. The summer elective is funded by grants from the Family Medicine with OB H.L.Baker Trust, Dane G. Hansen Foundation, Kansas Academy of General Surgery Family Physicians and The Sutton Fund and staffed by volunteer APRN physicians across the state. This elective is extremely popular, and Ellsworth County Medical Center, 18‐19 therefore, extremely competitive. Forty or more applications are Ellsworth received for thirty positions in the elective. Students are provided Family Medicine without OB both clinical and research training, at the University before they Rice County District Hospital, 20‐21 travel to their assigned rural physician where they will spend six Lyons weeks living in their assigned community. At the start of the Family Medicine with OB elective, students attend the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians Jewell County Hospital, 22‐23 Annual Meeting where members teach participants airway Mankato management, suturing and other skills necessary for the clinical Family Medicine without OB piece of the summer rotation. Once their training is complete, PA/APRN students spend time working with their assigned doctor in the Osborne County Memorial Hospital, 24‐25 clinical office and conduct their portion of the research project that Osborne has been assigned by Dr. Michael Kennedy, Associate Dean of Rural APRN Health Education and Course Director for the summer elective. Smith County Memorial Hospital, 26‐27 Volunteer faculty and respective communities provide housing for Smith Center the students for the duration of the rotation and offer opportunities Family Medicine with OB for the students to fully engage in the social life of the host Sunflower Health Network Physician Opportunities community. Upon completion of the summer elective, participating students return to their home campus and join their classmates for the second Don’t forget to like us on facebook! year of basic science education. During the second year, students