The medical campus in Madisonville was a natural. They will receive their entire third and fourth years of medical school education in this location. When students are limited to large metropolitan area for their medical training, they may miss out on the positive aspects of living and working in a small community. Those students who come to Madisonville for their education have in some way brought their interest in a small community to the attention of the university. They may request coming to Madisonville, they may be from Hopkins County or a nearby community and express an interest in coming here for their final two years of medical school education.
Most medical schools are in large cities.
There is no place in the country with this many physicians clustered together in a relatively small community. For many years there have been too many physicians around the cities with medical schools and too few in and around smaller towns. Students tend to practice medicine near where they have trained. The best situation is to provide the broadest possible array of high-quality, cost effective care right in the areas where people live and work. There are many advantages to the student and the patient in a teaching situation.