2021 REHPS Ann Flinn
Small towns make a big impact.” I applied to the REHPS program in hopes to learn more about rural health and that is exactly what I experienced. I was placed in Platte, SD a town of about 1,200 people and I stayed with a local family in their guest house. My preceptor was Tia Hanes who graduated from the USD physician assistant program about 8 years ago and has worked in Platte since. I traveled to other small communities nearly every day to provide health care. I traveled to White Lake, SD and Geddes, SD. Those small clinics are where…