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Medical Students Encouraged To Serve Rural Areas

Medical Students Encouraged To Serve Rural Areas

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There has been a big push in the last few years by the University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, and the legislature to encourage more medical students to think about practicing in rural areas.

One medical student is already planning to return to his home town. Randall Waldner is from Redfield…

 

Waldner says he wants to practice family medicine…

 

Waldner says he knows it will take some time before he can begin his time in Redfield…

 

The legislature has funded incentives and more slots for medical students to entice them to look at rural South Dakota.

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