Gundersen Lutheran and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health will form a new partnership in the fall in which medical students will spend more time learning primary care in rural areas.
In their third and fourth year, UW medical students interested in rural primary care will work at Gundersen clinics in such Wisconsin communities as Viroqua, Prairie du Chien, Whitehall, Sparta and Tomah. Five medical students will enter the Wisconsin Academy of Rural Medicine program at Gundersen Lutheran in the fall, which will be expanded to 25 students a year.