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Zumbro Valley Medical Society

Supporting the physicians and communities of Southeast Minnesota

ZVMS Street Medicine

In August 2021, ZVMS launched a new educational and service opportunity for Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine medical students to learn to bring health care out of the clinical setting and to underserved populations.

Since the inaugural 2021 Street Medicine longitudinal selective, ZVMS Street Medicine has grown in ways we could not have imagined.

ZVMS Rural Medicine

In April 2024, ZVMS and Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine (MCASOM) held an inaugural Rural Medicine Selective for 1st-year medical students, leading to the launch of the ZVMS Rural Medicine Initiative

ZVMS Promotes Biking

Check out the ZVMS biking resources webpage

Participate in ZVMS Advocacy Efforts

Please join us to advocate for your patients, communities, and science

ZVMS Series on Physicians Serving Patients Experiencing Homelessness

On any given night, there are almost 20,000 unhoused people in the state of Minnesota. Over the course of the year, over 50,000 in Minnesota experience homelessness at one point or another.(1) These numbers have not been helped by the current economic climate and are only expected to rise. ZVMS has created a series of talks to help physicians and other health care providers to best serve patients experiencing homelessness.

We are grateful to our community partners for their willingness to provide their insights and guidance.

What is ZVMS?

Zumbro Valley Medical Society (ZVMS) is a nonprofit professional membership organization serving 3,000 physicians and physicians in training in Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, and Olmsted Counties and promoting the health of communities in Southeast Minnesota.

ZVMS invites you to become involved in policy, community and public health, and professional collaboration.

Furthering Health and Health Care in Southeast Minnesota

Minnesota leads the nation on most measures of health and care delivery. However, there are large disparities in health care outcomes and access between minority groups and the majority. The medical profession must increase our efforts to not only preserve the patient-physician relationship, but also to achieve health equity.
 
By sharing your views, ideas, and experience with your colleagues, we can continue to shape the future of health care in Minnesota. Through the collective voice of all Minnesota physicians, we can achieve our goals of improved health access, quality, equity, lower costs, and greater physician satisfaction. The future is up to us.
 

ZVMS is ready to help amplify your voice.