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Iowa Invests to Train Doctors in Rural Areas | Sioux City News
Iowa’s pouring $10.5 million into a bold plan to train more doctors right where rural communities need them most—creating 14 new residency programs outside the cities. With 19 hospitals teetering and the state ranked dead last for OB-GYNs per capita, this is a high-stakes bet: train doctors locally, and they’ll stay. Specialties like internal medicine, psychiatry, surgery, and OB are targeted, with strict rules requiring at least half the training to happen in rural areas. Governor Reynolds believes residency location is destiny—doctors who train in towns like Marshalltown are far more likely…
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