Rural Medicine in the Upper Peninsula
Since 1974, MSU College of Human Medicine students have been serving communities across the Upper Peninsula and completing their clinical rotations through UP Health System – Marquette and in clinics and community hospitals in the region.
An inside look at the Upper Peninsula's Rural Physician Program
Susan Tincknell, student programs administrator for the College of Human Medicine’s Upper Peninsula Region Campus, frequently calls recent graduates to ask how they are doing in their residency programs.
“I was just talking to an alumnus down in Virginia, and she said she wants to get back up here,” Tincknell said. “She can’t wait to come back to the Upper Peninsula.”
She hears that often from graduates of the Rural Physician Program based at the Upper Peninsula Region Campus. Many tell her that enrolling in the program “hands down was the best decision they ever made,” Tincknell said.
That is good news for the 300,000 people spread across the vast Upper Peninsula, an area that historically has been medically underserved.
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