What is a Rural Program?
A rural program is an accredited program in health professions education and training in which students and/or trainees spend the majority of their time training (more than 50%) in a rural place. For a more complete description and an article about rural residency program definitions click here. There are currently nine (9) schools of medicine that are located in a rural community, and thirty-nine (39) medical schools with a rural track or pathway, or a rural campus, for a select number of students. For a listing of this growing community of practice in rural medical education download the CoP Directory.
What is the RTT Collaborative?
The RTT Collaborative is a cooperative of rurally focused health professions education and training programs from around the United States. This includes both undergraduate and graduate medical education programs and is beginning to expand to include other health professions. Although not all programs are rurally located or meet the definition outlined above, they are all invested in producing health professionals to rural practice!
Participating Program Map
St. Luke’s University Health Network
34 S. Railroad Street
St. Luke’s University Medical Center, in Bethlehem, PA, has applied for accreditation of a rural program based in Warren, NJ (the urban site for PGY1) and Tamaqua, PA (the rural ...
East Carolina University
Brody School of Medicine at Vidant Medical Center, East Carolina University
East Carolina University and Vidant Medical Center are exploring the development of a consortium of rural programs in eastern North Carolina.
Adventist Health Ukiah Valley
275 Hospital Drive
AHUV is a 6-6-6 program with our urban partner for the first year at our academic affiliate, U.C. Davis Medical Center. The following two years are a stand alone program ...
The University of Arizona College of Medicine at South Campus Family Medicine Residency
2800 E. Ajo Way, Room 3006
UACOM-SC FMR offers the best of many worlds. We serve the urban underserved in an academic hospital with the feel of a small community hospital. Required rural rotations in FM, ...
Providence Holy Family Hospital Family Medicine Residency Rural Training Track Pullman WA
835 Southeast Bishop Blvd., Pullman, WA 99163
Currently seeking ACGME accreditation, anticipate having first residents begin in Spokane WA. Eight residents will match to Spokane and spend R1 year in urban setting. R2/R3 years spent in rural ...
Swedish Port Angeles RTT
240 W Front St., Port Angeles, WA 98362
RTT Program where the 1st year is spent in Seattle at the Swedish Cherry Hill Family Medicine Residency. The second and third years are located in Port Angeles at the ...
Central Washington Family Medicine Residency Program Ellensburg Rural Site
521 East Mountain View Avenue, Ellensburg, WA 98926
Central Washington Family Medicine Residency Program Ellensburg Rural Track (CWFMR-E) is a 3-year family medicine program sponsored by Community Health of Central Washington and affiliated with the University of Washington ...
Chelan Family Medicine Residency
317 E Johnson Ave., Chelan, WA 98816
1:2 rural training program based out of the University of Washington Family Medicine Residency. This unique program offers the best of both worlds as it combines the benefits of a ...
St Peter Family Medicine Chehalis Rural Training Program
931 S. Market Blvd. Chehalis, WA 98532
Our residency is a high functioning Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH), where you work with a tight knit team including family medicine faculty, medical assistants, a triage nurse, a nurse ...
Aurora Lakeland RTT Family Medicine Residency
W3985 County Rd NN, Elkhorn, WI 53121
Our program is in the 1-2 format, with PGY1 in Milwaukee with the Aurora Family Medicine Residency, and PGY2/3 in Elkhorn Wisconsin. The Elkhorn/Lakeland area is a unique blend of ...
Samaritan Medical Center
830 Washington Street, Watertown, NY 13601
The Samaritan Medical Center Graduate Medical Education new Family Medicine Rural Residency Track will create new opportunities for medical school graduates to train in a significantly underserved rural region of ...
Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program
2669 N. Scenic Drive, Alamogordo, NM 88310
GCRMC is preparing to meet the needs of our community and of nation-wide medical education programs by establishing a Family Medicine Residency Program. We plan to offer residents experience in ...
Pierre Rural Family Medicine Residency
521 E. Sioux Ave., Pierre, SD 57501
The Pierre Rural Family Medicine Residency is devoted to providing an excellent education that prepares physicians for practice in South Dakota and other areas of the mostly rural upper Midwest. ...
University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency – Morgan County Rural Training Track
729 E. Railroad Ave., Fort Morgan, CO 80701
Morgan County RTT is a 1-2 program with the first year of training based at the University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency in Denver. The second and third years are ...
Wright Rural Health Initiative
7600 Lake Campus Dr. Celina, OH 45822
The WRHI serves a twelve county region of West Central Ohio with the goal of increasing the number of health professional students pursuing practice in rural communities by creating an ...
HealthPartners Western Wisconsin Rural Family Medicine Residency
265 Griffin Street East, Amery, WI 54001
The new 1-2 rural training track provides a unique real practice environment. The first year will be spent at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, MN where we have provided ...
UT Health Northeast, Rural Family Medicine Residency
105 Medical Plaza #3 Sulphur Springs, Texas, 75482
UT Health Northeast Family Medicine Residency is a 1-2 format program, during which residents spend year one in Tyler, Texas with our academic sponsor, the University of Texas Health Science Center ...
UNTHSC TCOM Rural Medical Education Program
3500 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76107
The ROME Program at UNTHSC is an innovative educational program designed to prepare students for life and practice in a rural or underserved community. This rural medicine curriculum includes academic ...
University of Wisconsin Baraboo Rural Training Track Family Medicine Residency Program
1700 Tuttle St. Baraboo, WI 53913
Located just 45 minutes north of Madison, the Baraboo RTT Family Medicine Residency Program trains residents in a rural setting, providing them with a lifestyle that truly mimics private practice ...
UND Minot – CHI St. Alexius Health – Williston Medical Center/Rural Residency
1201 11th Avenue SW, Williston, ND 58701
The program emphasizes rural family medicine training in the setting where it is practiced. Residents enjoy a well-rounded first year in Minot, N.D., a small city of 47,000 and the ...
UND Bismarck-Center for Family Medicine-Hettinger RTT
West River Health Regional Medical Center, 1000 Highway 12, Hettinger, ND 58639
The first year of residency is done in Bismarck at the core program. The last two years are done at the rural site in Hettinger. The core program has a ...
The University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine – Tulsa
3400 SE Frank Phillips Blvd., Bartlesville, OK 74006
We are a full-range rural family medicine residency. The clinic schedules are structured enough to ensure that our residents can provide excellent primary medical care for their patients in a ...
Swift River Rural Training Track
430 Franklin St. Rumford, ME 04276
At the Central Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency program, the only rural track in New England, students train at the Central Maine Medical Center, a community teaching hospital, for ...
Southern Colorado Family Medicine Alamosa Rural Training Track
1710 First St. Alamosa, CO 81101
The residents first year of training will take place in Pueblo Colorado, as part of a 40 year old family medicine training program with strengths in procedural training, to include ...
Seneca Lakes Family Medicine Residency Program
11082 N. Radio Station Rd., Seneca, SC 29678
Procedure-focused rural training, including surgical obstetrics and in-office EGD and colonoscopy. Active OB population includes a Hispanic clinic. Wilderness medicine fellowship is available during PGY-2 and PGY-3. The program is ...
Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program
1901 Redrock Dr. Gallup, NM 87301
RMCH is a rural hospital serving a 100-mile radius, which includes 65,000 county residents and 150,000 (of the 300,000 total) Navajo Reservation residents from the New Mexico/Arizona region.
The area served ...
Providence Oregon Family Medicine Hood River Rural Training Program
810 12th Street, Hood River, Oregon 97031
We are an innovative Family Medicine Rural Training Program located in beautiful Hood River, Oregon. We are a multidisciplinary team of Physicians, Nurses, Hospital and Clinic staff, administrative professionals and ...
Oregon Health & Science University – Cascades East Family Medicine Residency
2801 Daggett Avenue, Klamath Falls, Oregon 97601
Cascades East is a rurally-based three year residency program located in Klamath Falls, Oregon. It is university-administered through Oregon Health & Science University and community-based at Sky Lakes Medical Center ...
Ohio University Rural and Urban Scholars Pathways Program (RUSP)
1 Ohio University Irvine Hall 126, Athens, OH 45701
The Rural and Urban Scholars Pathways (RUSP) program helps prepare medical students to practice in underserved areas, both urban and rural. Through classroom preparation, rural and urban clinical experiences, and ...
North Colorado Medical Center – Wray Rural Training Track
1017 West 7th St. Wray, CO 80758
The faculty of the Wray RTT believe that the best training to become a rural family physician is to BE a rural family physician. Following a robust 15 months education ...
North Colorado Medical Center – Sterling Rural Training Track
615 Fairhurst Street Sterling, CO 80751
Following a robust first year with NCFM in Greeley, resident physicians move 100 miles northeast to Sterling, a community of 14,000, for years 2 and 3. An entirely longitudinal curricular ...
Wayne County Hospital Obstetric RESST (Rural Expanded Surgical Skills Track) Fellowship
417 South East Street, Corydon, Iowa 50060
This is a 4th year of fellowship training offered by a Critical Access Hospital. The fellowship will provide procedural training in C-section, D & C, postpartum tubal ligation, upper and ...
Hidalgo Medical Services Family Services Medical Program
1007 Pope Street, Silver City, NM 88061
The HMS Family Medicine Residency Program seeks to train the next generation of Family Medicine primary care physicians in a rural community health center environment, and prepare them to practice ...
Family Medicine Rural Training Track – Colville
1200 E. Columbia, Colville, WA
It has been our privilege at Providence Northeast Washington Medical Group to have established the first Family Practice Rural Training Track site in the United States in 1986. The Colville ...
Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana – Kalispell
401 W. Railroad St. Missoula, MT 59802
The Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana (FMRWM) is a 3-year family medicine program sponsored by The University of Montana and affiliated with the University of Washington Family Medicine Residency ...
Family Medicine Residency of Idaho, Inc., Magic Valley RTT
709 North Lincoln Jerome, ID 83338
South Central Idaho, commonly known as the “Magic Valley” due to the phenomenal growth of crops, is now also “magic” due to the medical community and the extremely broad training ...
Family Medicine Residency of Idaho, Inc., Caldwell RTT
666 Elm St. Caldwell, ID 83605
Welcome to the Caldwell Rural Training Track (RTT) Family Medicine Residency. The RTT is a branch of the main Family Medicine Residency of Idaho Program that is designed especially for ...
Cahaba Family Medicine Residency
405 Belcher St., Centreville, AL 35042
Cahaba Family Medicine Residency is an unopposed, community-based family medicine training program dually accredited by both the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the American Osteopathic Association (AOA). ...