 The University of Kentucky has also partnered with regional hospitals and schools to create satellite campuses and a Rural Physician Leadership Program (RPLP) to help address the shortage of community-based physicians in the state of Kentucky.The University of Kentucky RPLP was developed in partnership with St. Claire Regional Medical Center and Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky.From its realization in 2008 to 2016, over 50 medical students have matriculated to the program to spend their third and fourth years of medical school being trained as rural physicians and leaders.