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News Release
CENTER NEWS RELEASE/November 19, 2007
BSU Teams with Family Medicine Residency of Idaho to Study
Family Medicine Work Force in Rural Communities
Boise State University’s Center for Health Policy (CHP) and Family Medicine
Residency of Idaho (FMRI) have teamed up to assess the challenges of
recruiting and retaining family medicine physicians in rural areas of Idaho.
This research will build on findings of an earlier CHP/FMRI study to address
the following question: What characteristics are predictive of success or
failure with regard to a rural Idaho community’s recruitment and retention
of qualified family medicine physicians?
Researchers will attempt to better understand the relationships that affect
the rural family medicine physician work force in Idaho. One tool will be
the development of an “Apgar score” for rural Idaho communities.
Identifiable parameters include geographic remoteness, scope of services in
the local community hospital, scope of services provided by family medicine
physicians, loan repayment programs, and more.
Ed Baker, director of the Center for Health Policy, and David Schmitz, rural
director for FMRI, are co-principal investigators. Ted Epperly, chairman and
program director at FMRI, and Alex Reed, director of behavior science and
mental health at FMRI, are co-investigators.
”The Center for Health Policy is committed to engaging in collaborative
research that addresses real problems in Idaho communities,” Baker said.
Added Schmitz: “FMRI has a successful track record in partnering with Boise
State University and we look forward to working with researchers in the
Center for Health Policy on this important project.”
The research is being funded by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare,
State Office of Rural Health and Primary Care, through a grant from the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services
Administration. The project is slated for completion in summer 2008.
For more information, contact Baker at (208) 426-3118 or
ebaker@boisestate.edu; or Schmitz
at (208) 367-6468, or
dave.schmitz@fmridaho.org.
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Media Contact: Kathleen Craven, University Communications, (208) 426-3275,
kcraven@boisestate.edu
Boise State University professor Heidi Reeder has been named the 2007
Idaho Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching. She is an associate professor in the Department of
Communications. Reeder’s honor marks the 11th time that a Boise State
professor has earned this award, and the seventh time in the last decade.
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