Sample Session Topics & Selected Placement Opportunities

 

Maggie Pollard, MS4, presenting at the 2018 New England Rural Health Conference in Newry, Maine

Sample Calendar of Events 

Seminar: Student Summer Experiences: UMMS Campus

Rural Health Policy: UMMS Campus

Introduction to RHS Pathway: UMMS Campus

Skills—Suturing: Barre, MA

“Newbies in the Boonies” Casting and Splinting: UMMS Campus

Inaugrual Rural Health Retreat: Ashburnham, MA

Population Health Clerkship: Martha’s Vineyard, Barre, or Clinton, MA

New England Rural Health Roundtable Conference: Newry, Maine

Reading X-rays: UMMS Campus

Farm Visit: locals farms in MA

Annual Potluck Dinner: student’s home

Seminar: What is small town practice really like?: UMMS Campus

Indian Health Service: UMMS Campus

Screening of the Hungry Heart, co-hosted with SUD SIG: Amp II, UMMS Campus

Food is Medicine: Shaw Test Kitchen, UMMS Campus

Casting: Barre Family Health Center

 

Current SOM Elective/GSN Preceptorship Site Examples 

• Alaska’s Rural Immersion Institute of the North, Alaska
• Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, Franconia, NH
• Barre Family Health Center, Barre, MA
• Fairview Hospital, Great Barrington, MA
• Health Access Network, Millinocet, Maine
• Island Health Care, Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
• Mountain Area Health Education Center, NC
• Outer Cape Health Services, Wellfleet, Harwich, MA

Other sites are available, reflective of student interest. Please contact Suzanne Cashman for more information.

 

 DNP student Rachel Wasserman exploring the area while completing clinicals on Martha's Vineyard; SOM student Annika Bannon hiking while on rotation in Maine

Useful Links

Federal Scholarship and Grants 

To find a job in a health professional shortage area:  https://connector.hrsa.gov/connector/

To find a job in a rural community:  https://www.3rnet.org/