Omaha, Neb.-based CHI Health and Creighton University School of Medicine, also in Omaha, are introducing the nation's first Rural Track Physician Residency program, Fox Nebraska reported Nov. 7.
The medical training program aims to place physicians in rural areas across 90 of Nebraska's 93 counties. Internal medicine residents in the program spend their first year training at CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center-Bergan Mercy in Omaha, then transition to CHI Health Good Samaritan in Kearney, Neb., for their second year. Psychiatric residents will follow a similar path in May 2025, moving to CHI Health Richard Young Behavioral Health Medical Center in Kearney for their second year.
Over the next 20 months, the inaugural group of internal medicine residents will provide care at Good Samaritan's 236-bed hospital and specialty care clinics before beginning their professional careers.
Abubakar Tauseef, MD, is the newly appointed site director of the internal medicine program. The site director for the psychiatric residents will be named soon, according to the report.