The Tribal Rural and Underserved or TRU program was created to help students see that value of being immersed in the tribal and rural space both from a standpoint of future physicians who will practice there, but also seeing a different view of what is possible in medicine regardless of where you practice. In this episode, I interview third year medical student Abel Chavez who grew up in a rural community and TRU program director David Sandweiss who trained in tribal and rural areas. What I immediately noticed is that the TRU program teaches you to meet the patient literally where they are, to be a part of the community, and that small changes can make an impact. All three of these things can be scaled up in non-rural settings too. Most of all, I learned from this conversation that there are opportunities in medicine we could be more open to and that we can carve out a unique space to practice medicine in more ways than we think we can.