The University of Wisconsin-Madison?s soon-to-be-expanded School of Nursing will be graduating 130 nurses per year, with additional students in clinical doctoral training programs and 29 seeking their doctorates. The physician assistant program at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health is also in the process of expanding in response to the growing need of providers. Also mentions UW-Madison programs to train urban and rural doctors.
[A column by Richard E. Rieselbach, M.D., is professor emeritus of medicine; Byron J. Crouse, M.D., is professor of family medicine, associate dean of rural and community health and director of the Wisconsin Academy of Rural Medicine; John G. Frohna, M.D., MPH, is associate professor of pediatrics and medicine and pediatric residency program director at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Barbara J. Bowers, PhD, is professor and associate dean for research at the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing.]