Helpful Links for your Journey
Premed Students:
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AAMC/MCAT (Comprehensive site detailing the medical school application process)
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The White Coat Investor (Superb website, blog and book written to help medical professionals in all stages of the career achieve financial awareness and security. Never to early to start making a plan.)
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Rural Health Information Hub (RHIhub is an excellent resource for all rural medicine topics including loan repayment.)
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Am I rural? (RHIhub tool to help with scholarships and rural eligibility)
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AAFP Article (On why we need more rural medical students...)
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Nation Health Scholarship Core (NHSC-A service Corp with multiple loan options)
Medical Students:
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The White Coat Investor (As above, and with all that monopoly loan money, you better start reading!)
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Student Doctor Network Rural/Underserved Forum (The medical learner's forum)
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AAMC Financial Aid Info (Comprehensive and quality resource for financial aid information)
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RTT Collaborative Students Page (Rural training tracks and residency resources)
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AMA FREIDA (Search ACGME accredited residencies and fellowships, these programs are where you really become a doctor, so research and choose wisely.)
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National Rural Health Associations (An organization devoted to improving rural health care access across the country through advocacy, education and other means. Great resource and a good place to get involved as a medical student.)
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UW Care Provider Toolkit (If you are affiliated, this is an incredible clinical tool. Access to UTD, Dynamed, Pub med article, Procedures Consult, Sanford, ACOG Bulletins...)
Residents and Fellows:
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3RNET (A well-established non-profit network focusing on rural recruitment and retention for all health care specialties. While in theory a competitor to RFDN, our mutual goal is to grow the rural medical workforce and take better care of our patients, so please utilize this resource and start helping our undeserved rural patients.)
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The White Coat Investor (Sense a theme here. And I receive no financial benefits from WCI, but it really is a critical resource for all Docs as we receive no formal financial training in medical school and the prognosis of your financial condition is highly dependent on your knowledge.)
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UW Care Provider Toolkit (If you are affiliated, this is an incredible clinical tool. Access to UTD, Dynamed, Pub med article, Procedures Consult, Sanford, ACOG Bulletins...)
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RTT Collaborative Students Page (Rural training tracks and residency resources)
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AMA FREIDA (Search ACGME accredited residencies and fellowship)
Practicing Docs:
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UW Care Provider Toolkit (If you are affiliated, this remains an incredible clinical tool.)
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Primary Care Rap (Excellent high yield CME resource. Stay current while driving, exercising or recreating)
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EM:Rap (Like its sibling above, phenomenal CME. C3 content is in depth and if you forgot how to place a chest tube or do lateral canthotomy, no stress they have HD vids on that and more!)
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The White Coat Investor ("Live like a resident" so you can retire like a rock star! An essential resource.)
Rural Hospitals/Clinics and Communities :
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AAFP "Keeping Physicians in Rural Practice" (Useful for recruitment and retention)
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3RNET (A well-established non-profit network focusing on rural recruitment and retention for all health care specialties.)
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RHI Recruitment and Retention for Health Facilities (Multiple resources to help your facility recruit and retain providers)