Dr. Destiny Jamison, RUSP graduate, had no plans for the future while growing up in inner-city Akron. 然后，她的侄女出生了. 想成为一个榜样, Jamison was the first in her family to graduate from high school, 大学和医学院.
城乡学者通道
RUSP是什么??
The 城乡学者通道 program is a co-curricular learning community that aims to support and prepare medical student to practice in medically underserved areas. 随着2023-2024年队列的加入, the total number of students participating in the RUSP program is 146, 包括所有三个校区的四年. In 2022-2023, RUSP students represented 14% of the student body at HCOM.
Watch the video above to hear RUSP graduate, Stephanie Deuley, D.O. (’18)，用她自己的话谈论RUSP项目.
RUSP的目标
- Encourage students toward rural and urban underserved practice
- 培养一个反思的学习社区
- 开发 能力 与农村和城市服务不足的实践相关
- 在团队中培养领导能力
- Build awareness of community assets and sense of place in rural and urban underserved communities
- Promote community-engaged scholarly work in underserved settings
RUSP的组成
- 临床爵士乐, a longitudinal small-group experience in leadership development and peer coaching with a focus on 能力 for practice in an underserved setting, 体验式的基于地点的学习和指导
- Individualized coaching with a physician who has practiced in a rural and/or urban underserved community
- Professional development workshops focused on active exploration of issues 与农村和城市服务不足的实践相关
- Immersion experience for students in between their first and second years in a setting of relative austerity (possibly a global health experience)
- Six months or the equivalent of curricular time in a rural or urban underserved setting
- Scholarly project relevant to the health of rural and urban underserved communities
- RUSP Community Orienting Experience - a three-day immersive program in rural and urban underserved communities in central and southeastern Ohio for new RUSP students
其他机会及奖学金
- RUSP students interested in practicing in rural settings are encouraged to apply to the 农村卫生学者 Retreat each fall (open to students from all of Ohio’s medical schools).
- RUSP will support any RUSP student in their application for scholarships offered by the Heritage College.
适用于RUSP
Unlike many other rural or urban tracks at medical schools, RUSP is a pathway. This means that students can apply to the program as an accepted pre-matriculated student or as an OMS1. The application opens each academic year on November 1. The deadline for current students to apply is March 15 and May 1 for newly accepted students.
Once students are accepted into the RUSP program they do not have to reapply, 然而, we do ask that students make an active choice to opt in/out of the RUSP program annually.
Students are encouraged to review the online application in advance, in order to know what documents are needed at time of submission.
For questions or additional information, please contact 黎明Mollica，行政主任.
RUSP团队
The RUSP program was designed and implemented by Randall Longenecker, M.D. in 2013. The RUSP team includes director Sharon Casapulla, Ed.D., M.P.H.，还有三名副主任，每个校区一名. 凯蒂·克罗夫，D.O. ('02), is the associate director on the Athens campus. 杰西卡·格里格斯，医学博士.O. ('98), M.P.H., M.B.A., is the associate director on the Cleveland campus and Robin Newburn, D.O.('93), is the associate director on the Dublin campus. 我们的工作得到了黎明Mollica的支持，行政主任 for the 农村和服务不足项目办公室. Feel free to reach out to any member of the RUSP team for more information. 我们期待收到您的来信.
Each of the physician leaders on the RUSP team has been in rural or urban underserved practice. RUSP students receive regular coaching from some of the top instructors in medicine, including the National Rural Health Association's Educator of the Year and two who were named Mentor of the Year.
RUSP 10周年纪念
Throughout 2023 we are celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the establishment of the RUSP program at OU-HCOM. On September 13, we held a celebration and appreciation event on each campus. We were joined by two HCOM graduates who participated in the RUSP program. 如果你错过了，你可以 观看Stephanie Deuley的演讲.
参加RUSP的学生, 自愿担任RUSP教练的指导医师, 教职员工, staff and community members who facilitate 临床爵士乐 have made RUSP the successful program it is.
自2016年以来, 190 HCOM的学生已经从RUSP项目毕业 .我们的毕业生现在都出去实习了!
- 37% (25) are practicing in a 初级护理 Health Professions Shortage Area (HPSA)
- 72%(49人)在心理健康HPSA执业
- 26%(18)在医疗服务不足地区(MUAs)
- 26% (18) grads in practicing in rural places (RUCA score of 4 or higher). 就上下文而言，雅典是ruac4.
- 69%(68人中有47人)在俄亥俄州实习
See the full RUSP annual report at the button below.
The RUSP 程序 was established with funding provided by the Osteopathic Heritage Foundations (OHF).