Transforming Rural Family Medicine Curriculum From Experiential to Virtual: A Response to COVID 19 Limitations.
Cessation of all classroom and clinical activities in the spring of 2020 for first and second year medical students at the University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth campus both forced and enabled revision of rural medicine instruction and experiences. Creatively utilizing rural family physicians and third year rural physician associate medical students to interact with first year students virtually in a number of areas and using electronic connectivity enabled the institution to continue to emphasize rural medical health issues with the students.
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