"The doctor will see you now" could become more like "one-third of a doctor will see you now" under a new recruitment strategy that’s gaining traction for rural hospitals and clinics across America, including Wyoming.

Called fractional medicine, the idea is that hospitals or clinics can hire difficult-to-recruit specialists on a part-time rotational basis. Urologists , for example, who are difficult to recruit even for larger cities, much less regions with less than 100,000 population .

But what if a hospital could fill that position with three urologists who each serve 10 days per month? Then the clinic or hospital could still provide that care right there in its own community, without having to convince someone to move to their community full-time.

That in turn helps

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