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Upper Peninsula Campus

MSU-CHM and the Upper Peninsula Health Education Corporation (UPHEC) have partnered as the MSU-CHM Upper Peninsula campus to train high-quality committed physicians to serve in rural primary care.

With a shortage of physicians interested in rural areas, the best way to recruit and retain physicians for rural practice is to select individuals from small-town rural environments. These are the physicians who will most-likely return to practice in rural and remote areas.

The Upper Peninsula provides the ideal practice setting for a challenging and rewarding career in an exceptionally unique environment. Training physicians in this environment provides real-life small town experiences that are only available through the support and effort of the people of the community, its physicians, and its health care facilities.

UPHEC provides a small community campus setting with individualized training to eight students per class, and is considered the only rural primary care program of Michigan State University . Since 1974 UPHEC has trained 170 physicians who have entered 18 specialties.

The U.P. Campus is one of six campuses located in communities throughout the state including Flint , Grand Rapids , Kalamazoo , Lansing , and Saginaw.

Administration

David M. Luoma MD
Community Assistant Dean for MSU CHM
CEO of the Upper Peninsula Health Education Corporation (UPHEC)
418 West Magnetic Street
Marquette MI 49855
dluoma@mgh.org
906-228-7970
906-228-5734 (FAX)

Patti Copley, R.N.
Community Administrator
pcopley@mgh.org

Jody Lindberg
Administrative Secretary to Dr. Luoma
jlindberg@mgh.org

UP Web site
http://www.mgh.org/uphec/