The RMED Program is a supplemental curriculum designed to complement the regular UICOM medical school curriculum. All RMED students will take the traditional curriculum with other UICOM students, but will get additional training in rural medicine.

The RMED supplemental curriculum components are outlined in the table below:

RMED Course   Curriculum Focus   Methods
Foundations in Rural Family and Community Medicine I: RMED I #BMS 621 (M1 year)   Rural health issues, community resources, intro to COPC, rural leadership and negotiation skills.   RMED new student orientation, seminars, case-based small group discussions, field trips, optional rural health conferences, shadowing rural family physician for a day, selected readings and assignments.
Foundations in Rural Family and Community Medicine II: RMED II #PRCL 665 (M2 year)   Core concepts of family medicine, community resources (con’t), team approaches to health care, GME, practice-based issues.   Seminars, case-based small group discussions, rural health conferences, group presentation of annotated bibliography on a rural health topic, optional conferences and workshops, selected readings and assignments.
Interface Between Family Medicine and Community: RMED III #CLER 641
(M3 year)		   Concepts of community-based medicine and COPC, core concepts of family medicine vis-à-vis M3 curriculum and rural practice.   Seminars, small group discussions, A community health survey, windshield analysis, design COPC project, selected readings.
Rural Family Medicine Preceptorship: RMED IV #CLER 642 (M4 year)   Clinical skill development in rural settings, community structure study, implementation of COPC project in rural community.   Immersion experience; 60% clinical responsibilities; 40% community projects, which include collaboration with community individuals / organizations. Log clinical encounters into computer database; present COPC project in Poster Session; compile community notebook.