ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - A caller programme successful Rockford gives 10 students astatine a section assemblage a accidental to execute their imagination job.
“Just having this beardown instauration successful Rockford and being capable to service this community, and proceed to service this community, is precisely what I wanted to do,” said Reilly Wojchiehowski, who is one-of-ten University of Illinois College of Medicine students successful Rockford who volition signifier being a Family Medicine doc done 1 section hospital: UW Health SwedishAmerican.
“I went into medicine due to the fact that I privation to service my community,” said Wojchiehowski.
She says she knows the request for Family Physicians is high, truthful she wants to beryllium the alteration that is desperately needed successful our communities.
Winnebago County was ranked #88 retired of 102 counties successful Illinois successful 2022, according to County Health Rankings.
“My aboriginal signifier I’ll beryllium successful a agrarian assemblage hopefully surviving determination and getting to signifier some inpatient and outpatient medicine would beryllium my archetypal goal,” she said.
“I’ve ever been funny successful OB and Family Medicine,” said Holly Garcia, who was different pupil accepted into the program.
Garcia grew up successful Auburn, Illinois and says increasing up successful a tiny municipality gives her the quality to link with agrarian families and physique a beardown narration with them.
“Going into a residency you’re already nether a batch of unit and a batch of expectations. You benignant of cognize the providers, you cognize the place. You tin truly deed the crushed moving which is what this programs about,” said Garcia.
Her absorption volition beryllium much connected Obstetrics and Gynecology, learning however to assistance caller moms.
“What I tin spot is done this programme we volition person much of our graduates enactment successful Rockford for their grooming and past enactment successful Rockford for their practice,” Garcia expresses.
The 10 students accepted into the programme volition statesman their residency successful July and person objective acquisition for the adjacent 3 years.
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