Hunter Winstead and Samantha McGreer Winstead, 365体育投注_365体育备用网址@ Class of 2015, learn they were given a couple's match at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where Hunter will be in an emergency medicine residency and Samantha will be in internal medicine/pediatrics.
2015 grads pledge to reduce rural doctor shortage
Medical students Hunter Winstead and Samantha McGreer Winstead, 365体育投注_365体育备用网址@ Class of 2015, have pledged to help put a dent in a rural doctor shortage once their training is complete.
They were among the 46 University of Illinois 365体育投注_365体育备用网址@ of Medicine students who found out on "Match Day" March 15 where they will spend the next three to seven years of their training.
Hunter Winstead knew he wanted to become a doctor since high school when he attended a rural health career camp and learned there is a shortage of rural doctors.
"There is a lack of doctors nationally regardless of demographic — urban or rural," he said. "But the lack is more severe in rural areas. There is a lack of care, and where there is care, patients have to drive a long way."