The program has been blessed with motivated, hard-working, dedicated residents who are committed to rural health care. Residents have been honored nationally with one American Academy of Family Physicians Mead Johnson Award, two Mead Johnson Award Alternates, three Glaxo Welcome Scholars, awards for presentations at the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians annual meeting, national posters, publications in state and national refereed journals, political activities with the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians, and local, state, and University of Kansas committee assignments.
Residents integrate into the Salina social community.
The are active in churches, social organizations, drug and alcohol treatment committees and other groups. They are frequent invited lecturers to civic groups. They present the anti-smoking Tar Wars program to area grade school students. Residents volunteer to serve at the Salina Cares Indigent Clinic and as the Doctor of the Day at the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka.