Leaders in Rural Medical Education

For almost 50 years the Leadership in Rural Medicine Programs have trained doctors in underserved rural communities across Michigan. The programs educate rurally-minded medical students in small towns and clinical sites statewide to encourage and empower students to serve these populations in their careers as physicians.

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Program Leadership

Dr. Andrea Wendling MD, Rural Family Medicine Doctor and Director of the Leadership in Rural Medicine Progams
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Program Application

Student Involvement Opportunities

Current LRM students can get involved with additional student engagement
Current Students

Midland Regional Campus

Students split their time between MyMichigan Medical Center Midland and small-town clinics, doctor offices and hospitals in 16 small towns from the Thumb area west to Alma and north to the Straits of Mackinac.

Midland

Traverse City Campus

Students are embedded throughout eight Northern Michigan hospitals operated by Munson Healthcare, and serve patients out in the community through the Traverse City Street Medicine program.
Traverse City

Upper Peninsula Region Campus

Students spend much of their time in the UP Health System hospital in Marquette while also serving at 30 clinics and physicians’ offices in the small towns from Sault Ste. Marie to Ironwood.
Upper Peninsula