Healthcare
Learning through experience with healthcare providers focused on those with the least.
Rural Emergency Medicine Externship at Braxton County Memorial Hospital.
Preceptor: Dr. Christopher Conrad
Rural Track Extracurricular: Journal Clubs, Clinical Learning Groups, Problem Based Learning Groups, Poster Presentations, Rural Rotations both third and fourth years of medical school.
Curriculum is in addition to West Virginia University Medical School’s main syllabi.
Two-month Global Health Elective in Rwanda. Clinical rotation will be to the rural Shyira District Hospital in the Nyabihu district of Rwanda.
Medical College of Wisconsin Saturday Clinic
Primary volunteer contact at Saturday Clinic for the Uninsured assisting physicians by recording and handling patient information.
The Clinic is a primary care clinic run by medical and pharmacy students that offers free health services to the uninsured patients of Milwaukee.
Marquette’s Action Program
M.A.P. Medical Responder attending to volunteer’s minor injuries and obtaining emergency medical attention. For more than 30 years, students have enjoyed choosing service trips living in community, reflecting on issues of social justice and making a difference in a community.
Aurora Sinai Inpatient Rehab & ACE Unit for Senior Health & Longevity
Aid to Patients in the Center focused on helping the Patient achieve the highest quality of life possible.
Marquette Global Medical & Dental Brigades
Volunteer working in hazardous Nicaragua locations building clinics and the supporting infrastructure supporting the Mission of inspire, mobilize, and collaborate with communities to achieve their own health and economic goals.
Conor Martin, West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Flanagan said it’s also important to have financial security, but when the mission is to improve rural health care, he said he’s on board.
Rural Health Assn. Plan To Recruit Out-of-state Medical Staff
……. Aidan Flanagan, a third-year medical student at WVU from Chicago, said he was drawn to the Mountain State and its people.
“I’ve always had a passion for working in rural communities and primarily in underserved communities,” Flanagan said. ”I felt that after being in West Virginia for the past three years, I want to continue being here and providing care if people need it most.”
Flanagan said establishing a tax credit for preceptors would encourage more urban health professionals to follow a rural career path.
“It’s important to pair students with physicians and understand their community,” Flanagan said. “If you don’t have that relationship, then you’re not going to be able to better the community over generations.”