State report lays out — and does not rule out — medical education options

Idaho should consider several options to address its physicians’ shortage, according to a working group that has been studying the problem since summer.

The menu includes expanding its 50-year partnership with the University of Washington’s medical school, and purchasing a private, for-profit medical school in Meridian.

“The plan described here is immediately actionable in the near term,” according to a draft of the working group report, released by the State Board of Education late Monday afternoon…

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