Sample Session Topics & Selected Placement Opportunities
Maggie Pollard, MS4, presenting at the 2018 New England Rural Health Conference in Newry, Maine
Sample Calendar of Events
Seminar: Student Summer Experiences: UMass Chan Campus
Rural Health Policy: UMass Chan Campus
Introduction to RHS Pathway: UMass Chan Campus
Skills—Suturing: Barre, MA
“Newbies in the Boonies” Casting and Splinting: UMass Chan Campus
Inaugrual Rural Health Retreat: Ashburnham, MA
Population Health Clerkship: Martha’s Vineyard, Barre, or Clinton, MA
New England Rural Health Roundtable Conference: Newry, Maine
Reading X-rays: UMass Chan Campus
Farm Visit: locals farms in MA
Annual Potluck Dinner: student’s home
Seminar: What is small town practice really like?: UMass Chan Campus
Indian Health Service: UMass Chan Campus
Screening of the Hungry Heart, co-hosted with SUD SIG: Amp II, UMass Chan Campus
Food is Medicine: Shaw Test Kitchen, UMass Chan Campus
Casting: Barre Family Health Center
Current T.H. Chan School of Medicine Elective/Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing Preceptorship Site Examples
- Alaska’s Rural Immersion Institute of the North, Alaska
- Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, Franconia, NH
- Barre Family Health Center, Barre, MA
- Fairview Hospital, Great Barrington, MA
- Health Access Network, Millinocet, Maine
- Island Health Care, Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
- Mountain Area Health Education Center, NC
- Outer Cape Health Services, Wellfleet, Harwich, MA
Other sites are available, reflective of student interest. Please contact Suzanne Cashman for more information.
DNP student Rachel Wasserman exploring the area while completing clinicals on Martha's Vineyard; T.H. Chan School of Medicine student Annika Bannon hiking while on rotation in Maine
Useful Links
Federal Scholarship and Grants
To find a job in a health professional shortage area: https://connector.hrsa.gov/connector/
To find a job in a rural community: https://www.3rnet.org/