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The Rural/Underserved Opportunity Program (R/UOP) is a four week elective immersion experience for University of Washington Medical students between their first and second years of medical school.

Students participating in Wyoming R/UOP work side-by-side with physicians in rural communities.

The goals of this unique program are to:

• Provide students with early exposure to the challenges and rewards of practicing primary care medicine in a rural setting.
• Promote a positive attitude toward rural community medicine.
• Provide students with an opportunity to learn how community health care systems function.

R/UOP is administered by the University of Washington Department of Family Medicine. Each WWAMI state may have different funding sources, but in Wyoming, R/UOP is supported by the Wyoming Area Health Education Center. In addition, the program has strong support from the many volunteer physician preceptors and the communities they serve.