Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
A Greenville residency program for new doctors is aimed at getting more family medicine practitioners to set up practice in rural areas.
Many rural communities in the U.S. have struggled with primary care shortages and gaps left by retiring physicians, leaving some patients to either have to travel, have waits or forgo care.
Darke County is federally designated as a “Health Professionals Shortage Area” for primary care and mental health, and a medically underserved area.
The goal of the new Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine residency program is to train family medicine physicians who will go on to establish their medical practice in rural Ohio, where health systems struggle to find enough physicians to meet their communities' needs.
The program will be located at Family Health Services of Darke County, where residents will see patients. Residents will complete hospital rotations at Wayne HealthCare in Greenville.
