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A Medical-School Program at U. of Washington Helps Northwestern States Lure Physicians to Rural Areas.

Monaghan, Peter – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1989

Rural areas have difficulty attracting physicians, and they also send fewer students to medical schools than do urban areas. A program at the University of Washington's medical school known as WAMI--for Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho--is trying to combat that problem. (MLW)

Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Family Practice (Medicine), Geographic Distribution, Higher Education

Geographic and Specialty Distributions of WAMI Program Participants and Nonparticipants.

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Adkins, Ronald J.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1987

In an effort to make the geographic distribution of physicians closer to the distribution of the population as a whole, in 1971 the states of Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho (WAMI) established the WAMI Program. The results of the first seven years of the program are described. (Author/MLW)

Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Demography, Family Practice (Medicine), Geographic Distribution