Rural Medical Track
The rural medical track prepares medical students for a rural primary care residency and a successful practice in rural or underserved Oklahoma. The rural medical track offers unique learning opportunities for motivated students to fully develop their skills, knowledge and abilities to succeed in a challenging practice environment.
Students interested in pursuing the rural medical track should indicate so on the OSUCOM supplemental application, and also complete the Rural Medical Track (RMT) application. If you have a question regarding the rural medical track, please call 405-317-3043.
Why choose the rural medical track?
- Leadership: Students in the rural medical track have the opportunity to assume leadership positions with the Student Osteopathic Rural Medical Club at the OSU Center for Health Sciences and gain student membership status to the National Rural Health Association.
- Research Opportunities: Students complete a guided, rural health-focused research project during their first and second years of medical school.
- Early Clinical Experience: Prior to the second year of medical school, students interested in joining the rural medical track may shadow a rural physician for two weeks.
- Clinical Training in Rural Oklahoma: Students in the rural medical track complete their third year of clinical core rotation at community-based primary care residency sites.
- Enhanced Clinical Training: Limited enrollment translates to more hands-on training opportunities and one-on-one focused instruction for rural medical track students.
- More Sub-Internships: Students complete at least two sub-internships at a primary care residency site early in their fourth year. The sub-internships can serve as residency auditions.
- Selective Rotations: To optimize their skills in residency training and beyond, students in the rural medical track complete at least three selective specialty rotations as identified by OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine medical education staff.
For additional information about RMT, please visit: Rural Medical Track.
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Items in bold are completed by traditional and rural medical track students.
Rural Medical Track Training Sites
- Osteopathic Medical Education Consortium of Oklahoma (OMECO) Graduate Medical Education
(GME) Training or Rotation Sites:
- Ada, Durant, Lawton, McAlester, Norman, Tahlequah, Talihina, and Tulsa, Oklahoma
- 4th Year Community Hospital Rotation Sites:
- Ada, Altus, Ardmore, Duncan, Durant, Enid, Grove, Idabel, Lawton, McAlester, Miami, Muskogee, Okemah, Okmulgee, Ponca City, Stillwater, Stroud, Tahlequah, Talihina, and Woodward, Oklahoma.
- 4th Year Emergency Medicine Rotation Sites:
- Ada, Chickasha, Enid, Lawton, McAlester, Norman, Oklahoma City, Tahlequah, and Tulsa, Oklahoma
- 3rd Year Rural Clinic Rotation Sites:
- Altus, Ardmore, Cherokee, Chouteau, Cleveland, Duncan, Durant, Elk City, Enid, Idabel, Jay, Laverne, Lawton, McAlester, Miami, Muskogee, Norman, Ochelata, Pawhuska, Ponca City, Poteau, Purcell, Stigler, Stillwater, Talihina, Vian, Vinita, Wilburton, and Woodward, Oklahoma
- Anthony, Kansas
- 3rd Year Core Rotation Sites:
- Ada, Durant, Enid, Grove, Lawton, McAlester, Muskogee, Oklahoma City, Tahlequah, and Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Sub-internship Sites:
- Durant, Lawton, McAlester, Oklahoma City, Stillwater, Tahlequah, Talihina, and Tulsa, Oklahoma
- TeleHealth Network Sites or cities with installed equipment:
- Anadarko, Claremore, Cleveland, Fairfax, McAlester, Poteau, Sallisaw, Stroud, Tahlequah, and Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Program Office:
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Area Health Education Center (AHEC) Regional Center Offices:
- Enid, Lawton, McAlester and Tahlequah, Oklahoma