RPHARM Concentration

  • 1st Year

    • Team Building
    • Population-Based Approach to Rural Health Care
    • Marshall Trip
    • Rural Mental Health Issues
    • Job Shadowing
    • Community-Based Rural Health Research
    • Southern Exposure Trip

  • 2nd Year

    • Team Building
    • 4-H Health Jam
    • Agricultural Hazards & Toxicology
    • No Harm on the Farm Tour
    • Rural Health Topic Presentations
    • Issues for the Rural Elderly
    • Ethics – Rural Scenarios
    • Job Shadowing
    • Northern Exposure Trip
    • Interprofessional simulated patient cases

  • 3rd Year

    • Advanced Team Building
    • Community Assessment
    • Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) Project
    • IRB & abstract submission process
    • Practice Decisions – Planning for the future
    • Interprofessional simulated patient cases

  • 4th Year

    While completing three six-week APPEs in the rural community, RPHARM students also work on the their COPC Project:

    • Implementation
    • Data Collection
    • Poster presentation at Rockford Research Day