Amna: Nearly two thirds of areas
with a shortage of health
nationals art in rural
communities.
For decades programs have
offered incentives to try to
correct the problems.
We visited a hospital doing
their part to train the next
generation of doctors but
support -- with support.
>> Good morning pharmacy team.
>> Dr. Erin Mcglothlin is
training a new team.
>> The mission is to go out and
practice for areas that
desperately needed.
>> Dr. Mcglocklin says it is
about preparing this next
generation tour -- far fewer
resources to deal with medical
conditions.
>> Windows are next-door, that
provider has to accommodate and
make changes to back this and
limit how many times they are
sending patients to see a
specialist.
You can't do that sometimes in
rural areas.
>> You are the one.
>> You're are the one managing
the problem even though it is
something out of the scope, but
in that area you are the
specialist.
>> It's a challenge, commitment.
Extra learning.
>> Adam is a young resident
learning the new expanded
definition.
He is in the rural family
medicine program.
>> It teaches you to be very
versatile and is very important.
>> I don't like relying on other
people are using two doctors
when one will do.
>> Nationally, he is an outlier.
99% of rogue grams are located
in cities and suburbs, but where
doctors train where they end of
practicing, that leaves rural
communities high and dry.
The government accountability
office estimates addressing the
shortage in the next two years
will take an additional primary
care positions.
Since 2010, at least 136 rural
hospitals have closed their
doors.
Quotes of a love to see more
doctors at the same.
>> At the West Virginia school
of osteopathic medicine in
lewisburg.
>> The data is clear.
Help indices for the entire
community go up.
>> The school was founded 50
years ago, specifically to
address this shortage.
James is the president of the
school.
>> Part of what I have seen as
successful is growing your own.
Having people come from the area
, they go to medical school and
residency.
Families are here and they love
the people.
Quotes training -- >> Training
is similar to that of mds with
more focus on lifestyle and
environmental factors.
Leaning on osteopaths might seem
unconventional but they make up
11% of the physicians in the
U.S..
>> The perceptions have come a
long way since I started.
We now make up 20% of the
medical students in the united
States so we are becoming a much
larger flesh, they are
practicing.
>> The school offers a program
to give students 20 weeks of
specialized training while they
are in medical school.
>> We have a world track called
the health initiative that
recruit students who are from a
rural area for have a strong
commitment to practicing because
some students come in and say
that is what I want to do.
They are assigned to some
smaller hospitals around the
state that will provide those
rural opportunities in training.
We are working alongside doctors
and they are working in that
Armand, you get to see that they
will practice the high quality
of care in a rural town.
>> Travis grew up in west
Virginia, both students in the
rural health initiative at the
West Virginia school of
osteopathic medicine.
>> I wanted to do med school.
This has always been home.
>> A drug crisis, addiction
crisis.
>> Coalminer for 13 years, now
he wants to be a psychiatrist.
>> Give back to the communities
that raise you.
>> As part of the training.
>> They come here to see what
the water quality was.
People will be drinking water,
water is most of your body.
>> She oversees the community
engagement through the center
for rural community health.
They offer funding to local
people and teaches lessons not
part of a standard school
curriculum like extensive
learning about nutrition and
helping senior citizens to do
chores.
>> We bring the community and
asked them and developed
programming around that.
>> I think there is so much more
to medicine than just going to
the doctor and there is a lot to
do with the trust and
relationship that they have,
they are a big part of the
community, it is more important
than ever to have those people.
>> >> Soon enough, they will
graduate, set up their own
practice and hopefully continue
building those bridges.
I'm in lewisburg, West Virginia.
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