Regional Medical Campuses

Regional medical campuses: a new classification system.

There is burgeoning belief that regional medical campuses (RMCs) are a significant part of the narrative about medical education and the health care workforce in the United States and Canada. Although RMCs are not new, in the recent years of medical education enrollment expansion, they have seen their numbers increase. Class expansion explains the rapid growth of RMCs in the past 10 years, but ...

Engagement in Distributed Medical School Campuses

Four clinical concepts symptoms, diagnosis, causes, and treatment(s) comprised an easily implementable organizing framework for both individual basic science lectures and for an “integration session” that incorporated clinical and discipline-based foundational sciences. According to most students (>80 %) surveyed, this approach facilitated a novel and more meaningful appreciation of basic scien...

Preceptor engagement in distributed medical school campuses

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest in distributed medical campuses and engagement of physicians in these communities. To date, there has been suboptimal recruitment of physicians to participate in medical education at distributed campuses. The purpose of this project was to identify barriers to engagement in medical education by community physicians in the geographical catchment of the Wat...

The influence of regional basic science campuses on medical students' choice of specialty and practice location: a historical cohort study

BACKGROUND Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) employs eight regional basic science campuses, where half of the students complete their first two years of medical school. The other half complete all four years at the main campus in Indianapolis. The authors tested the hypothesis that training at regional campuses influences IUSM students to pursue primary care careers near the regional...

Development underway for new community medical education campuses.