The Family Medicine Residency Program–Pullman, a partnership between the WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and Pullman Regional Hospital (PRH), was featured on a PRH podcast to provide an update on the program as it approaches an exciting milestone—our first graduating class of fully trained family medicine physicians.
On the episode, Associate Program Director Molly Thompson, MD, explores what sets the program apart and how it aims to make an impact by recruiting more doctors to serve rural communities.
“We are one of the very few residencies in the country that are completely out of a critical access hospital, meaning we are rural through and through. All three years of family medicine residency training occur in Pullman,” Dr. Thompson explained. “One of the big goals is to bring physicians to our rural area, meaning this residency can be a recruitment tool to bring physicians to a place where, honestly, it’s hard to recruit.”