Kenan Rural Scholars Program

In 2013, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine (UNC SOM), The William R. Kenan Charitable Trust, and Mountain Area Health Education Center (MAHEC) collaborated to create the Kenan Primary Care Medical Scholars Program (formerly the Rural and Underserved Scholars Program). With the selection of 10 scholars in 2018, the program has supported and continues to support 54 students seeking to offer primary care in rural North Carolina.

The Kenan Primary Care Medical Scholars (KPCMS) Program inspires students from The University of North Carolina School of Medicine to pursue rural, underserved patient practice in North Carolina in primary care specialties. The KPCMS Program supports to explore the unique complexities of patient care in rural North Carolina. Creating connections with communities, practices, and providers, resources and other like-minded individuals. To address the needs of our state population, the program aims to populate underserved regions with well-trained doctors to address health care disparities.

Read about our first cohort of Kenan Scholars!