Walker touts proposed funding for rural physician residencies

Soon-to-graduate medical students at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) write on commemorative sweatshirts the good news of their just-announced residency specialty and destination during the school's annual Match Day, held at the Health Sciences Learning Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on March 18, 2010. This year, more than 140 medical students will graduate in May and start residencies around the country. (Photo by Jeff Miller/UW-Madison)
Gov. Scott Walker highlighted budget provisions that would expand physician residencies in rural and underserved areas in the state Wednesday.