Medical program yields fewer Idaho family doctors
| October 23, 2008 |  View for printing |
A regional program to train medical students in Seattle is yielding more Idaho doctors, but fewer of them are practicing family medicine and helping alleviate a statewide shortage of primary care physicians.
The number of Idaho medical students who graduated from the program and returned home to work in primary care has fallen 12 percent since 2005, according to a state Board of Education report this month.
The WWAMI Medical Education Program http://www.montana.edu/wwwwami/ was developed in 1971 and allows students from Idaho, Wyoming, Alaska and Montana to attend the University of Washington School of Medicine and pay the same tuition as Washington students. The program emphasizes family medicine in rural or underserved areas and encourages graduates to work in the Northwest.
By JESSIE L. BONNER
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