The Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program (R/UOP) continues to be one of the most important experiences for students in the WWAMI Medical Education Program. R/UOP provides an exciting and challenging four-week, elective immersion experience for students between their first and second years of medical school. R/UOP placements are scheduled between May and August. Each student works sideby-side with a physician in a rural or urban underserved community found throughout Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho (WWAMI), and spends approximately 40 – 50 hours a week in the field with their preceptor. During their time away from their preceptor, they are busy developing a community research project.

In the coming weeks we will spotlight some of the physician preceptors throughout Idaho who have made this program such a success.