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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 2024

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Summer 2023

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Summer 2022

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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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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, Sabrina Gay (People’s Choice Award), Sai Kit NG (Top SoD Project), and Bradford Burns & Rafael Homer (Top Community-Engaged Projects).

   

Top SoD Project

 
E-2023 Student Awardee/s
The winner/s receive a cash award and a certificate for their presentation.

 

Awardee Project Title SoD Research Site
NG, SAI KIT
Incidence of Bacterial Bloodstream Infections and Cytokine Release Syndome, and Biomarker Kinetics to Differentiate them after CAR-T Cell Immunotherapy
 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-2023 Student Awardee/s
The winner/s receive a cash award and a certificate for their presentations.
 
Awardee Project Title RUOP Research Site
GAY, SABRINA Characterizing Right Ventricle Dysfunction After Loss of Endogenous E2 Production Laramie, WY

 

 

 

Top Community-Engaged Projects

 
E-2023 Student Awardees/s
The winner/s receive a cash award and a certificate for their presentations.
 
Awardee Project Title SoD Research Site
BURNS, BRAD
Preventing Hemorrhage-Induced Death in Fremont County, Wyoming Through Stop the Bleed Community Education
 Fremont County, WY
POWELL, FRANKLIN A Human Cellular Model of Darier Disease Defines New Potential Treatment Strategies Thermopolis, WY