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During Tuesday’s Columbus Rotary Club meeting, Wahnee Sherman, executive director of the Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship program, noted that since its inception in 2007, the program has produced 100 physicians who have agreed to work in rural areas.
If there is anything Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship program’s Executive Director Wahnee Sherman hopes to communicate to college students, it’s that Mississippi needs more doctors in rural hospitals.
Getting physicians and dentists to set up practice in rural areas of Mississippi can be a tough sell. That's why the state is trying a different approach.