The funding will be used to support the school’s Rural Scholars Program, which first launched in 1995 to improve primary care physician shortages and maldistribution across rural areas of Missouri, according to an Oct. 4 news release from the medical school.
It includes Bryant Scholars Pre-Admissions Program, which focuses on encouraging students with rural backgrounds to pursue careers in medicine and offers ten rural training site partners where third-year medical students complete clinical clerkships.
Other programs include the summer community program, rural elective program, rural immersion program and clinical rural immersion program.
