Congratulations to the University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health Rural Health Equity Track on receiving a Wisconsin Department of Health Services Graduate Medical Education Residency Expansion Grant totaling $675,000. This grant will help sustain an increase of three new resident positions for four years beginning July 1, 2023.
Kelsey Schmidt, MD, (left) and Karyn Cecele, MD were the first graduates from the Madison Residency Rural Health Equity Track (RHET), in 2020.
The Rural Health Equity Track (RHET) prepares residents to be leaders in improving rural health care through rural practice and rural health advocacy. RHET residents gain skills to help patients with needs that otherwise might go unmet in rural communities such as medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid addiction.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services Graduate Medical Education Residency Expansion Grants are intended to support current accredited GME programs in priority specialties in expanding their programs with the goal of improving the health of the people in Wisconsin by increasing the number of physicians practicing in rural areas of Wisconsin.
Published: November 2022