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Rural medical program towns selected

Five South Dakota towns have been chosen for the first clinical sites for the University of South Dakota’s medical school to expand health care into rural areas.

The Sanford School of Medicine’s Frontier and Rural Medicine or FARM program has picked Milbank, Mobridge, Winner, Platte and Parkston – each town has fewer than 10-thousand people.

Medical students will be picked in the coming months for nine months’ clinical training in those areas. FARM program director, Dr. Susan Anderson says there’s a lot of excitement about the program that will expose students to the rewards of practicing medicine and living in a rural community. Students will have to design and implement a program to address a local health concern.

The goal is to increase the number of doctors who practice in rural South Dakota.

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