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Gov. Otter wants new system to produce Idaho doctors

September 17, 2008/

A program to send Idaho students to Seattle to train them as doctors so they can then return home to practice has fallen short, Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter said.

Otter, speaking Monday to a joint interim legislative committee on medical education, said the program that reserves spots for Idaho students at the University of Washington School of Medicine is not up to meeting an increasing need for doctors in the state.

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