I. Given the importance of understanding the population health role of family medicine, students in this required 8-week rural clerkship have the option to complete a project on quality improvement. Students select a topic, review the literature, do background data collection, and plan but do not implement the intervention, given the short timeline of the clerkship. Students present their findings and recommendations. A description of this curriculum was published in the Journal Family Medicine in 2002. FMDRL_ID: 4032#LegacyPeerReviewed