Dr. Paul W. Schoephoerster

"Growing up outside Anoka, coming from a family of teachers and farmers, being fairly well-rounded and loving the outdoors, I was always interested in rural medicine – it seemed like it'd be a good fit. This interest was piqued in medical school at the University of Minnesota, when I applied for a position in the Rural Physician Associate Program, a program whose mission is to entice young providers to pursue careers in rural primary care. I was accepted into the program and spent the majority of my third and fourth years of medical school ""apprenticing"" with some amazing family doctors out in Montevideo, Minnesota. This experience chiseled in granite my desire to be a country doctor. My medical school advisor, knowing of this goal, suggested I look into the University of Missouri's family medicine residency, as its mission was to train rural primary care doctors. I applied there, got in and fell in love with the department, the area and my wife, so saw no reason to leave. After completing residency and then a geriatrics fellowship, I was asked to join the faculty there and help run one of the department's teaching practices in a very small town in rural Missouri. I spent the next 30-plus years teaching and practicing full-spectrum, rural family medicine. Practicing in a rural area, anything can and does walk through the clinic doors. So, there's not much I haven't seen and very little I am surprised by. Many of the issues one deals with in a rural practice are not taught in medical school, so the ""art"" of medicine truly comes into play. My training and experience to date have taught me to work with all patient types, young and old, healthy and ill. And I enjoy them all. I've always viewed my role as that of an educator and a partner, working with patients and their families in order to accomplish their own personal health care goals. I don't force health care on anyone, but try to give people the information and guidance they need to make good health choices. To this end, I try to stay current on medical science and research in order to deliver evidence-based guidance. Simply, my philosophy of care is driven by the tenets of family medicine.".

Dr. Schoephoerster is highly rated in 9 conditions, according to our data. His clinical expertise encompasses Hypothyroidism, Sitosterolemia, Familial Hypertension, and Hypertension.

Dr. Schoephoerster is board certified in American Board Of Family Medicine. Dr. Schoephoerster is currently accepting new patients.