Is there anyone else in family medicine here?

[MamaChristie]

Just curious, I've seen tons of different specialties so far but no family medicine. Anyone hoping to practice rural family medicine? That's what we are... hope to connect with some other family medicine folks!

[diggitydot]

Re: Is there anyone else in family medicine here?

DH is in a family med residency and will be going into rural care, too.

[MamaChristie]

Re: Is there anyone else in family medicine here?

Yay, that's great! Any others?

Re: Is there anyone else in family medicine here?

Don't think so - unless they just lurk.

[rainbabies]

Re: Is there anyone else in family medicine here?

ditto. i can't think of anyone else.

[Meenah]

Re: Is there anyone else in family medicine here?

Not as an MD but an NP! Adult Primary Care.

Re: Is there anyone else in family medicine here?

DH is med-peds.

[MamaChristie]

Re: Is there anyone else in family medicine here?

Great! melfitz, we interviewed at a med-peds program in WI... awesome area!

Re: Is there anyone else in family medicine here?

Great! melfitz, we interviewed at a med-peds program in WI... awesome area!

Where did you interview? I wonder if it's with DH's practice. There aren't too many med-peds practices in the Milwaukee area that I know of.

[MamaChristie]

Re: Is there anyone else in family medicine here?

He interviewed in a town smack dab in the center of the state, very small with little nearby. =) It definitely wasn't for us, I need Target!

[diggitydot]

Re: Is there anyone else in family medicine here?

Question - what is Rural family med? The only rural place I can think of is Appalachia. And the midwest. :>

Seriously, what makes a practice rural?

Kind of the same thing, really. Have you ever watched to the old TV series Northern Exposure? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098878/) It's about the adventures of a doc who has to practice medicine in a tiny Alaskan town for a few years to repay his student loans. It's a LOT like that show, sans the Alaska specific goofiness.

Rural medicine usually means the doc is one of maybe a couple in that end of the county (if he/she is lucky), there might be a small hospital -- maybe a dozen beds including the ER, sometimes there's a clinic owned by the county or city, and the docs do a little bit of everything, including a fairly healthy amount of ob/gyn and some surgical procedures.

We'll be returning to WA state which has vast amounts of rural areas. Pretty much anything away from the I-5 corridor is likely to be rural-ish. And eastern WA is predominantly farming communities. I don't know...maybe rural family medicine is a bigger thing in the west where the states are larger and people are much more spread out? :huh: