Training medical students for rural practice

Dr. Joseph Holt is an associate professor of medicine and a physician at University Hospital in Madison, but he previously practiced for over a decade in rural Rusk County in northern Wisconsin. Now, he’s helping to train new generations of medical students for practice in small rural communities through the Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine (WARM) in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Holt says that the program provides students with extensive training and experiences pertinent to doctors who practice in rural areas, such as the ability to handle a wide variety of issues with limited resources. About half of the 331 WARM graduates to date have settled in rural communities.

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