COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
Each of these institutions offer several health career programs, please click on each website for more information.

Apollo College

Boise State University

BYU-Idaho

College of Idaho

College of Southern Idaho

College of Western Idaho

Eastern Idaho Technical College

Idaho State University

Lewis Clark State College

North Idaho College

Northwest Nazarene University

University of Idaho

Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program

The Rural/Underserved opportunities Program (R/UOP) is a four-week, elective immersion experience for students between their first and second years of medical school.Click on the link listed above for more information.






The Idaho Conrad J-1 Visa Waiver Program and National Interest Waiver Program(Idaho Statute, Title 39, Chapter 61)

This allows the ID Department of H & W to recommend the placement of foreign trained physicians in rural and underserved communities across the state. The application requires a signed employment contract between the community and the physician. The physicians must agree to provide direct patient care full-time for a minimum of three years in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology or psychiatry, and they must serve Medicaid and Medicare patients, and provide a sliding payment scale for those who are compromised in their ability to pay for care. Evidence of active recruitment over a minimum of six months has to be shown. There is an administrative and processing fee for each application. For more information contact Laura Rowen, Primary Care Program Manager, (208) 334-5993, rowenl@dhw.idaho.gov


Strategic Planning for Hospitals



Conducting Hospital Employee Feedback Surveys

This program provides a brief background on why it’s important to know what your employees are thinking and feeling and how that affects quality of care in your facilities and to provide easy-to-use, practical tools to help hospitals implement a process to assess their employees perceptions and general satisfaction with their work environment.  This program was designed for those unfamiliar with employee surveys, but others more experienced in employee surveys might also find some of these tools useful.   Feel free to use and adapt any of this information while adhering to copyright laws.