There are a lot of reasons why Dr. Lyn Power has devoted her professional life to practising rural medicine, but the sense of teamwork and community is why she stays.
“Rural medicine is really important, and when I started medical school in 1992 I remember someone saying that in the first orientation week, and it resonated with me,” she said. “It's definitely harder because obviously there are disadvantages to living in a rural area, but I think the more opportunity people have to see the great pieces of rural medicine, the more people it will draw in. There's lots of us who've come to rural and stayed for a long time.
“Part of what I do with Memorial is to try to find good places for people to practise, to get training,” she said. “You hear everywhere people are closing practices and if there are less and less family doctors in communities practising, then that means we don't have those places necessarily now to send our students. One of the reasons why we've been successful is that our students get really great opportunities to spend time in rural and learn the value of it.
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