Medical Students Get Free Tuition for Promising to Practice in Rural Arizona
November 25, 2019 |
by Stephanie Innes
Some University of Arizona medical school students are getting free tuition in exchange for a promise to practice in underserved rural areas for at least two years after they graduate.
The scholarship money is from state funds earmarked to alleviate a physician shortage that is particularly acute in rural Arizona, where more than one-quarter of primary-care physicians plan to retire in the next five years.
