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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
Peer reviewedAdkins, 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
Direct linkCueva, Melany; Kuhnley, Regina; Lanier, Anne P.; Dignan, Mark – Convergence, 2006
Community Health Aides and Community Health Practitioners (CHA/Ps), the primary providers of healthcare in rural Alaska, share the importance of story as a culturally respectful way for creating meaning and broadening understanding. Story is woven into the fabric of cancer education courses for CHA/Ps. Between May 2004 and April 2007, 13 week-long…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Public Health, Cancer, Health Education
