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Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program (RUOP)

Overview

The Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program (RUOP) is a four-week, elective immersion experience in community medicine for students between their first and second years of medical school.
     
During their 4-week rotation, students live in rural or urban underserved communities throughout Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho (WWAMI). They work side-by-side with local physicians providing healthcare to underserverd populations. Administered by the UW Department of Family Medicine, RUOP is a collaborative effort of the UW School of Medicine, WWAMI campuses and the Area Health Education Centers.

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Summer 2021

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Summer 2020

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Summer 2019

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Summer 2018

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Summer 2017

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Summer 2016

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Summer 2015

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Program Goals

  • Provide students with an early exposure to the challenges and rewards of practicing primary care medicine in a rural or urban underserved setting.
  • Promote in students a positive attitude toward rural and urban underserved community medicine.
  • Provide students with an opportunity to learn how community healthcare systems function.

 RUOP sites are located across the state of Wyoming

 
 

 

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Galen Tribble

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Shayna Bauer

Students on their Summer RUOP Experience

 

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Brayden Feusner

 

RUOP/Research AWARDS

WWAMI hosted it's annual Research Symposium this fall for the E-22 class at the Ivinson Memorial Hospital.
Congratulations to award winners, Caleb Hoopes (People’s Choice Award), Madeleine Prince (Top SoD Project), and Thomas Robitaille & Franklin Powell (Top Community-Engaged Projects).

   

Top SoD Project

 
E-2022 Student Awardee/s
The winner/s receive a cash award and a certificate for their presentation.

 

Awardee Project Title SoD Research Site
PRINCE, MADELEINE

 

Assessing Barriers to Diagnosis Among Children with Pediatric Lupus
 Seattle, WA

 

 

 

  

People's Choice Award

Students carried out a defined project where they were involved in developing methods, analyzing results, and formulating conclusions based on their discoveries.    

 

E-2022 Student Awardee/s
The winner/s receive a cash award and a certificate for their presentations.
 
Awardee Project Title RUOP Research Site
HOOPES, CALEB

 

Characterizing Right Ventricle Function in Physiologically Aged Male Mice
Seattle, WA

 

 

 

Top Community-Engaged Projects

 
E-2022 Student Awardees/s
The winner/s receive a cash award and a certificate for their presentations.
 
Awardee Project Title SoD Research Site
ROBITAILLE,THOMAS
Fighting Media with Media: Addressing the Youth Mental Health Crisis in Gillette, Wyoming by Meeting Them Where They’re At
 Gillette, WY
POWELL, FRANKLIN
Assessing General Opioid Literacy and Awareness of High School Students in Hot Springs County, Wyoming
 Thermopolis, WY